Skip to main content
Collections Menu
SAM'S collection
Ksitigarbha (Jizo Bosatsu)
Ksitigarbha (Jizo Bosatsu)

Ksitigarbha (Jizo Bosatsu)

Date15th century - 16th century
Object number40.45
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Discovering Buddhist Art - Seeking the Sublime", July 9, 2003 - June 3, 2005Published ReferencesFuller, Richard E. "Japanese Art in the Seattle Art Museum: An Historical Sketch." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1960 ("Presented in commemoration of the Hundredth Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and the United States of America"), no. 81
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
DimensionsOverall: 20 1/4 × 6 1/2 × 7 in. (51.5 × 16.5 × 17.8 cm) Overall h.: 23 3/8 in. (59.4 cm)
MediumWood with gesso and polychrome, crytal, metal
Avalokiteshvara (Kannon Bosatsu)
Japanese
10th-11th century
Object number: 68.130
Jizo Bosatsu (Khsirtigenba)
Japanese
1392-1573
Object number: 64.80
Kintaro wrestling with a bear
Japanese
early 18th century
Object number: 35.72
Photo: Paul Macapia
Japanese
late 10th century
Object number: 48.179
Lord of Wisdom (Kokuzo Bosatsu)
Japanese
end of 14th-early 15th century
Object number: 49.91
Photo: Paul Macapia
Chinese
10th - late 13th century
Object number: 35.17
Mourning Bird-man (karura)
Japanese
early 8th century
Object number: 50.57
Gyodo mask of a bodhisattva
Japanese
1158
Object number: 51.131
Bodhisattva (Bosatsu)
Japanese
11th- 12th century
Object number: 57.62
Japanese
1185-1333
Object number: 53.18