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Memorial Stone
(Japan and Korea )
This stone was erected to help ensure that a pious Buddhist couple would be reborn in the Paradise of the Western Buddha. They were given Buddhist names and called "female believer" (left) and "male believer" right. The seated left-hand figure looks like the Bodhisattva Kannon (the Indian Avalokitesvara), the one on the right the Bodhisattva Jizo, both of whom dwell in the Western Paradise.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Professor Walther Kirchner, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2002, by gift.
Geographies
Japan (Place of Origin)
Measurements
21 x 11 3/4 x 9 in. (53.3 x 29.8 x 22.9 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Professor Walther Kirchner, 2002
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
25.224