Works Catalogue
SC-1804-003
Datsueba (Sōzuka no Baba)
sculpture1804
- ID
- SC-1804-003
- Type
- sculpture
- Subject
- Old Woman of the Underworld — strips clothes of the dead
- Date
- 1804
- Date Notes
- Bunka 1 (1804); November 15; inscribed 文化元年十一月十五日作
- Vow Serial
- 千体之内
- Medium
- Wood
- Dimensions
- H 70 cm
- Location
- Jūōdō (十王堂); Bibashima Village Sawada; Kariba-gun
- Prefecture
- Niigata
- Country
- Japan
- Source
- YanaguiPhotoBook1925
- Notes
- Entry 83 in Yanagi 1925 photo book (解説No 83). Dimensions 丈二尺三寸. Paired with Enma Daio (SC-1804-002). Unusual choice of subject — Datsueba strips robes at the Sanzu River crossing. Rare in Mokujiki corpus.