Seishinji Temple
Main Image Wooden Statues of the Twenty-Eight Attendant Deities Category Tenbu (Deva)
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DescriptionThe wooden statues of the Twenty-Eight Attendant Deities can be viewed in the treasure repository at Seishinji Temple. Dating to the Kamakura period, the surviving figures are made in joined-wood construction with crystal-inlaid eyes and display a powerful sculptural style. They have been preserved as attendant deities protecting the temple’s principal Thousand-Armed Kannon and are designated Important Cultural Properties of Hiroshima Prefecture. As a group of medieval Buddhist sculptures at a temple closely associated with the Kobayakawa clan, they are particularly rewarding to see and are normally open to visitors.
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