Japanese Antique Carved Wooden Temple Fudog

Japanese Antique Carved Wooden Temple Fudog

SKU 1486547 Categories Architectural / Wood Carvings, Object / Statue, Religious, Temple Carving / Ranma

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Region	Japanese
Period	Pre 1700

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Antique Japanese carved wooden figure of a fu-dog (fu-lion) guardian. Traces of paint and gold guilt remain. The underside has writing in ink and a translation which reads: “This pair of Foo-lions was donated to the gate of Myoken Nichiren Shrine in Noma village of the province of Sesshu (near Osaka) on the date of 9th May, 7th year of Genroku ra. (1694 AD) by Gendo Ujihiro Inoue for his memory of accomplishment of repeating “Nichiren” prayer 300 times.”

Dimensions: 10″ high x 9″ long x 6 1/2″ wide

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Antique Japanese carved wooden figure of a fu-dog (fu-lion) guardian. Traces of paint and gold guilt remain. The underside has writing in ink and a translation which reads: “This pair of Foo-lions was donated to the gate of Myoken Nichiren Shrine in Noma village of the province of Sesshu (near Osaka) on the date of 9th May, 7th year of Genroku ra. (1694 AD) by Gendo Ujihiro Inoue for his memory of accomplishment of repeating “Nichiren” prayer 300 times.”

Dimensions: 10″ high x 9″ long x 6 1/2″ wide

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Region	Japanese
Period	Pre 1700

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