The English Wikipedia article "Burke Jizo," on Kaikei's wooden statue of Jizo (Kshitigarbha), carved circa 1202 using yosegi-zukuri joined-wood-block construction with a hollow interior, cut-gold patterning on the robes and inlaid crystal eyes, the figure holding a khakkhara staff in the right hand and a wish-fulfilling jewel in the left. The article records that the statue was originally housed at Kofuku-ji temple in Nara, Japan, was de-accessioned by the temple in 1906 amid the financial difficulties Buddhist institutions faced after the Meiji Restoration's religious policies, was acquired in April 1970 by type designer Jackson Burke and his wife Mary from Galerie Janette Ostier in Paris, and passed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the whole Mary Griggs Burke Collection on her death in 2012, giving the accession number 2015.300.250a, b and dimensions of 55.9 by 17.1 by 17.1 centimetres. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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This source names Kshitigarbha directly: "on Kaikei's wooden statue of Jizo (Kshitigarbha), carved circa 1202 using yosegi-zukuri joined-wood-block construction with a hollow interior, cut-gold patterning on the robes and inlaid crystal..."
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This source names Kshitigarbha directly: "on Kaikei's wooden statue of Jizo (Kshitigarbha), carved circa 1202 using yosegi-zukuri joined-wood-block construction with a hollow interior, cut-gold patterning on the robes and inlaid crystal..."
Source Burke Jizo (Wikipedia)
Nara, Cities This source names Nara directly: "housed at Kofuku-ji temple in Nara, Japan, was de-accessioned by the temple in 1906 amid the financial difficulties Buddhist institutions faced after the Meiji Restoration's religious policies, was..."
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