Eight Youths Attending Fudō Myōō
金剛峯寺八大童子像
Artwork · Unkei · 1198 · statue · Koyasan Reihōkan
The eight youths attending Fudō Myōō, made for Kongōbu-ji on Mount Kōya for an aristocratic patron: coarse characters given intelligence and elegance, and brimming with life1. TNM, Unkei 2017, “Unkei also received commissions from various aristocratic families. His rendition of the Eight Youths Attending Fudo Myo’o (No. 18) for Kongobuji temple in Wakayama imbues this group of coarse characters with an aura of intelligence and elegance on the one hand, and a brimming sense of vitality on the other”. ↩ Literatur TNM, Unkei 2017: UNKEI – The Great Master of Buddhist Sculpture (special exhibition, 2017), in: Tokyo National Museum, Exhibitions (2017), https://www.tnm.jp/modules/r_free_page/index.php?id=1861&lang=en (zuletzt abgerufen am 28.10.2026).