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Shinto Deities
January 2 (Tuesday) to March 25 (Sunday), 2007
The Collections Hall, Galleries 5/6
During the New Year's season, when people in Japan visit shrines to make wishes, what form do they imagine the Shinto gods to take? Perhaps they think that the gods wear outfits and have their hairs in topknots or coils similar to those seen on haniwa figurines because such images have been pervasive through Japanese artworks from the modern period on.
This New Year exhibition presents early to medieval sculptures and paintings of Shinto deities as imagined by people in ancient Japan. Here, we find not only compassionate but also fierce and wrathful portrayals of the gods, for the Japanese ancestors considered these beings to be forces to be feared. In this exhibition, Explore how the early Japanese viewed their gods through the various forms expressed in the Shinto images.
Important Cultural Property
Seated Daishogun
Daishogun Hachi Shrine
Important Cultural Property
Goddess Shanmiac
Kouzan-ji
Seated Female Deity
Matsuno'o Shrine
| Designation |
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Provenance |
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Standing Jizo |
Akishino-dera |
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Seated Male Deity |
Hiedano Jinja |
| Important Cultural Property |
Seated Daishogun |
Daishogun Hachi Shrine |
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Seated Female Deity |
Himure Hachiman Shrine |
| Seated Female Deity |
Matsuo Shrine |
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