Category:

Municipally Designated Tangible Cultural Property (Sculpture)

Title:

Yamadake enkusaku kannonzo

The Yamada Family’s Figure of Kannon (Avalokiteśvara) by Enku

山田家円空作観音像

No. of features:

One figure

Designated:

November 2, 1968

Location:

2-chome Higashi-Omiya, Minuma Ward

Owner:

Under private ownership

Description:

 This statue of the bodhisattva Kannon (Avalokiteśvara) is 33 cm tall and between 6.3 cm and 11.3 cm deep. The bust and the lotus in the bodhisattva’s hands are carved from the inner surface of a quartered section of timber.

Associated Texts:

(1986). “Cultural Properties in Omiya” (vol. 1). Omiya Municipal Board of Education.

Please be courteous towards other visitors and the site’s owners/curators when visiting this cultural property.

Inquiries (Japanese only)

Cultural Heritage Preservation Division, Department of Lifelong Learning, Board of Education Secretariat　

TEL：048-829-1723 FAX：048-829-1989

https://www.city.saitama.jp/004/005/006/001/017/003/003/p000258.html