Buddhist Figures and Their Attributes (Zōho shoshū Butsuzō zui 増補諸宗佛像図彙) : [volume 2]

Kino, Shūshin‏ · 1783 · Edo : Morie, Sashichi (Chōkoku-ji), 森江佐七(長谷寺) · 21 pictures

Buddhist Figures and Their Attributes, volume 2, is a Japanese woodblock reference book compiled by Kino Shūshin and published in Edo in 1783 by Morie Sashichi of Chōkoku-ji, for Buddhist practitioners and students of iconography. Its pages arrange seated and standing bodhisattvas and deities in rows of boxed black-line figures, each labelled with a name in kana and kanji and annotated with text marking their attributes. For designers, the strict grid of repeated figures, with varied hand gestures, halos, lotus bases and held objects, offers a clear model for systematic icon sets and symbol libraries.

Buddhist art and symbolism

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