Single-pronged vajra (tokko sho)

late 12th century

Japanese

Gilded bronze

1 x 1 in. (2.54 x 2.54 cm)

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection

56.137

Photo: Susan A. Cole

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Discovering Buddhist Art - Seeking the Sublime", July 9, 2003 - June 3, 2005

Tacoma Art League, Tacoma, Washington, "Collections of Puget Sound", 1957 (1957)

San Francisco, California, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, "Treasures of Japan", 1960 (1960)

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Japanese Art In The Seattle Art Museum", 1960 (1960)

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "A Thousand Cranes: Treasures Of Japanese Art", February 5 - July 12, 1987 (02/05/1987 - 07/12/1987)

Published ReferencesPromey, Sally M. editor, Sensational Religion: Sensory Cultures in Material Practice, 2014, Yale University Press, fig. 4.5, ills. page 76

Fuller, 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. 68

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