An illustrated plate depicting Tsukuyomi, the Shinto moon deity, from Shinbutsu-zue, a five-volume manuscript compendium of Shinto and Buddhist deities attributed to Hashimoto Sadahide, known by the art name Gyokuranzai Sadahide, a documented ukiyo-e artist active into the 1870s. The manuscript, dated to the late Edo period and held by the National Diet Library of Japan, illustrates dozens of kami from the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki genealogical narratives in sequence; its Tsukuyomi plate sits among plates for Amaterasu, Susanoo and the deity's fellow primordial kami, reflecting Tsukuyomi's place as the second of the three noble children born to Izanagi. The compendium's title, meaning an illustrated gathering of gods and buddhas, reflects the syncretic Shinto and Buddhist devotional culture of Edo Japan even where, as with this plate, the individual subject is drawn from Shinto myth alone.
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MediumAttributed to Hashimoto (Gyokuranzai) Sadahide, before 1868, National Diet Library of Japan 1 Classification
Object TypeManuscript Illumination 1 Medium (class) Connections
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This source names Amaterasu directly: "Tsukuyomi plate sits among plates for Amaterasu, Susanoo and the deity's fellow primordial kami, reflecting Tsukuyomi's place as the second of the three noble children born to Izanagi."
Source Shinbutsu-zue, Bibliographic Record (National Diet Library of Japan)
This source names Izanagi directly: "of the three noble children born to Izanagi."
Source Shinbutsu-zue, Bibliographic Record (National Diet Library of Japan)
This source names Izanagi directly: "of the three noble children born to Izanagi."
Source Shinbutsu-zue, Bibliographic Record (National Diet Library of Japan)
This source names Susanoo directly: "plate sits among plates for Amaterasu, Susanoo and the deity's fellow primordial kami, reflecting Tsukuyomi's place as the second of the three noble children born to Izanagi."
Source Shinbutsu-zue, Bibliographic Record (National Diet Library of Japan)
This source names Susanoo directly: "plate sits among plates for Amaterasu, Susanoo and the deity's fellow primordial kami, reflecting Tsukuyomi's place as the second of the three noble children born to Izanagi."
Source Shinbutsu-zue, Bibliographic Record (National Diet Library of Japan)
This source names Tsukuyomi directly: "An illustrated plate depicting Tsukuyomi, the Shinto moon deity, from Shinbutsu-zue, a five-volume manuscript compendium of Shinto and Buddhist deities attributed to Hashimoto Sadahide, known by the..."
Source Shinbutsu-zue, Bibliographic Record (National Diet Library of Japan)
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Source Shinbutsu-zue, Bibliographic Record (National Diet Library of Japan)
Depicts
The plate's named subject in the manuscript's own sequence of Shinto and Buddhist deities, held by the National Diet Library of Japan.
Source Shinbutsu-zue, Bibliographic Record (National Diet Library of Japan)
Additional Source Shinbutsu-zue, Tsukuyomi Plate, File Record (Wikimedia Commons)
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1. Shinbutsu-zue, Bibliographic Record (National Diet Library of Japan)
National Diet Library of Japancatalogue record, medium/object-type descriptionQuote, catalogue record, medium/object-type description
An illustrated plate depicting Tsukuyomi, the Shinto moon deity, from Shinbutsu-zue, a five-volume manuscript compendium of Shinto and Buddhist deities attributed to Hashimoto Sadahide, known by the art name Gyokuranzai Sadahide, a documented ukiyo-e artist active into the 1870s.
Nihon Shoki (Wikipedia)
In Group: Three Precious Children (Sankishi), the entity's own title identifies the plate's subject as Tsukuyomi, a Shinbutsu-zue deity plateView the Source Shinbutsu-zue, Tsukuyomi Plate, File Record (Wikimedia Commons)
Wikimedia CommonsDepicts: TsukuyomiQuote, Depicts: Tsukuyomi
Tsukuyomi (月読尊), Shinbutsu-zue, artist Gyokuranzai Sadahide, before 1868, National Diet Library of Japan Digital Collections, pid 2606668.
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