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Tachikibutsu - Trees with carved Buddha Statues
. Tachikibutsu - 立木仏 .
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source : jiroh26
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A carver would select a tree in a certain location and carve his statue in the living tree, sometimes using a ladder to climp high up for the head. The tree was often located in a sacred forest on a sacred mountain. They have been carved as long ago as in the eighth century and found oftne in Eastern Japan.
Here Buddhist beliefs and animistic worldviews find their combination.
The simply carved figures were sometimes painted, but more often they are left as nature made the colors. Camphor trees (kusu no ki 樟), the Japanese Judas tree (katsura 桂), firs (momi 樅) and the Japanese cedar (sugi 杉) were most often used.
. Tachikibutsu - 立木仏 .
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西尾市に「円空仏」観音菩薩像
Statue of Kannon Bosatsu
At the temple Jooomyooji 浄名寺 Jomyo-Ji of the Jodo Sect 浄土宗 .
Nishi-O Town
source : kniimi/e
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Buddha statues carved out of living trees
. Tachikibutsu - 立木仏 .
. Buddha Statues and Japanese Deities .
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