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There's an interesting helmet with a large statue of Fudo Myo-o, the "immovable radiant king" of Shingon Buddhism. I don't recall seeing another helmet with a
by Isamu 8y ago
There's an interesting helmet with a large statue of Fudo Myo-o, the "immovable radiant king" of Shingon Buddhism.
I don't recall seeing another helmet with a full statue. Are there more examples?
- cnahr 8y agoThat was the first and only one I had seen, too. I suppose there may be a few more but they certainly seem to be rare. This exhibition had no other examples. The helmet with a flame-engulfed dragon that was shown mounted on an armor suit comes closest.
- thaumasiotes 8y agoArmor 1 and Armor 3 both feature heavy use of a light bluish thread for decoration. In China a similar blue, made from kingfisher feathers, would be an imperial symbol -- do you know if there's any relationship / what the significance in Japan was?
- cnahr 8y agoI’m not aware of any such relationship in Japan. The exhibition didn’t mention it, and I haven’t heard of it elsewhere either. I think it’s just decorative here.
- asark 8y agoThere's this one at Les Invalides in Paris (site not mine): https://frompariswithlove-becky.blogspot.com/2015/03/les-invalides.html https://frompariswithlove-becky.blogspot.com/2015/03/les-inv... Cmd/ctrl+f, "dragon". It's not quite half way down. Picture's not great. IIRC it was right inside the entrance we came in, though I don't know how much help that is as there are probably a few, even if you narrow it down to entrances open to the public. There's a closer, somewhat sharper shot of just the top on this page: https://thetreesaroundnunhead.blogspot.com/2011/08/paris-3-tour-invalides.html https://thetreesaroundnunhead.blogspot.com/2011/08/paris-3-t... Searching on page for "dragon" brings one straight to it, again. It's a European helmet, not a Japanese one, though.