Works Catalogue
SC-1807-009
Ten Kings of Hell (Jūōzō; Tōkōji Yakushidō)
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- ID
- SC-1807-009
- Type
- sculpture
- Subject
- Ten Kings of Hell (十王)
- Date
- 1807
- Date Notes
- Mokujiki age 90; circa 1807–1808. Complete set of 10 figures in Yakushidō at Tōkōji.
- Medium
- Wood
- Location
- Tōkōji (東光寺); Yakushidō (薬師堂); Inagawa-chō Kitasekine
- City
- Inagawa-chō
- Prefecture
- Hyōgo
- Country
- Japan
- Source
- InagawaWalkingMap2014
- Notes
- Complete set of the ten judges of the Buddhist afterlife. Installed alongside Datsueba (SC-1807-010) and White Demon (SC-1807-011) as a coherent underworld iconographic programme. Compare SC-1799-001/002 (Hamamatsu Jūōdō).