日本 江戶時代 阿彌陀如來佛 設色絹本 立軸 |

encre, couleurs, or et feuille d'or sur soie, montée en rouleau, boîte couverte en bois (3)

傳Willem van Heusden 1955年前得自日本

'I have not been able to surely identify this Buddha or Bodhisattva who is probably peculiar to one of the esoteric (tantric, probably Shingon) Buddhist sects. I believe, however, that the figure reprensents Dainichi i. e. Varocana, immediately under the Adi-buddha and, as the sun, the ultimate symbol of all pervading light, energy and creative power. He is worshipped by the the Vajrayana sect of Tantrism which, incidentally, makes of sexual mysticism. In Japan it is a branch of Shingon.' Quote Willem van Heusden in his notes accompanying this painting.