2022 Autumn Special Exhibition "Containers to Protect Buddha - To Store, Container, Wrap"

Special/Planned Exhibits

[This exhibition has ended]

2022 Autumn Special Exhibition "Containers to Protect Buddha - To Store, Container, Wrap"
Period: Saturday, October 15, 2022 - Sunday, January 15, 2023

First period: October 15, 2022 (Saturday) - November 27, 2022 (Sunday)
Second Term: November 29, 2022 (Tuesday) - January 15, 2023 (Sunday)
Closed: December 28, 2022 (Wednesday) - January 4, 2023 (Wednesday)
* Sponsoring Kansai Culture Day,Free admission on Monday, November 21stwill do.
Initially, we listed November 27 (Monday) as the free admission day, but the correct date is November 21 (Monday). We have made the correction and would like to offer our deepest apologies for the inconvenience caused to our users by providing them with incorrect information. We are truly sorry.

There are various types of "containers" to house, hold, or wrap Buddha statues, scriptures, etc., in order to protect them. Sometimes the container is more dazzling, historically valuable, or aesthetically superior than the contents.
However, the value of these items is not determined by their beauty of form, their state of preservation, or even by the impression they give at first glance. The fact that the contents and container have been handed down as a set to this day gives them value as cultural assets, and this fact gives them great historical significance.
This exhibition will focus on and introduce the hidden value of cultural properties by allowing visitors to view them together with the containers that protect them.

Main exhibits

Sculpture

Important Cultural Property	Standing statue of Kongo God Standing statue of Shenzhen General	Kongobu-ji Temple
Important Cultural Property	Shakyamuni Nyorai and other statues (pillow principal image)	Fumon-in Temple	[First half]
Important Cultural Property	Statue of Manjushri Bodhisattva and messengers	Henmei-in Temple	[late]

Painting

Illustration of the pilgrimage route within Koyasan Temple grounds

Kongobu-ji Temple

Crafts

Important Cultural Property	Bugaku costumes	Kongobu-ji Temple	[Early and late exchange]
Designated by Wakayama Prefecture	Chrysanthemum and peony openwork box	Kongobu-ji Temple
	Gilt bronze box with Sanskrit characters and a treasure flower motif	Hojuin
	Five-pronged vajra and relic basket	Ryukouin Temple

Calligraphy

National treasure	The Gold and Silver Sutra (Chusonji Sutra)	Kongobu-ji Temple	[Early and late exchange]
National treasure	Collection of Treasure Sheets, Continued Collection of Treasure Sheets, and Continued Collection of Treasure Sheets	Kongobu-ji Temple	[Early and late exchange]
Important Cultural Property	Standing statue of Kongo God Standing statue of Shenzhen General Treasure Indarani inside the statue	Kongobu-ji Temple

Folklore materials

Nationally registered tangible

folk cultural assets

A small wooden Gorinto dedicated to Mount Koya and