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Kalika, a rakan (or disciple of Buddha), reading a handscroll
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Description
Kalika was one of the Buddhist arhats, who were personal disciples of the Buddha. Here he sits reading a handscroll, cultivating his mind in the pursuit of enlightenment. The hanging is finely worked in a wide variety of stitches, with a robe of appliquéd fabric and some facial features and hair painted on. (Exhibition number 8)
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto (probable place of creation)Europe (original location)
- Date
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late 19th century
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
- Material and technique
- silk damask, dyed blue, with fabric appliqué, embroidered with coloured silk, flat silk, and paper-backed gold foil wrapped around a silk or cotton core, and partly painted; piping, probably paper; cotton border, dyed brown
- Dimensions
- 128.3 x 76 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum.
- Accession no.
- LI1956.24
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 9 November 2012-27 January 2013, Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan, Clare Pollard, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 8 p. 97, illus. p. 97
Past Exhibition
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Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan
(from 9th Nov 2012 until 27th Jan 2013)
Location
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- returned to owner
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