Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 147184
Vajra God
- Artist / 作者
- 不明
- Date / 年代
- 2067-2099
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Reiwa / artelino
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 586 × 800 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Artelino
- Published by / 公開者
- 白石カナ
- Rights / 権利
- All rights reserved / commercial reuse prohibited
- Attribution / 表記
- Artelino
Catalog note / 解説
"Basara Taishi" (Vajra God, one of the Ni-o). The Ni-o (Kongo Rikishi) are the paired Buddhist guardian gods stand at the main gates of the many Japanese Buddhist temples. Their formidable forms also represent the particular cosmic sounds. The "Agyo" opens his mouth uttering the sound "ah," meaning birth. His closed-mouth partner is called "Ungyo," who sounds "un" or "om," meaning death. "Ah" is also the first letter and "Un" is the last letter in the Sanskrit and Japanese alphabets. This combination symbolically represents all possible outcomes (from alpha to omega) in the universe.
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