Kannon and Golden Dragon, Green (57/100)
by Mayumi Oda
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- robynbuntin
Description
Kannon paired with a golden dragon in green — one of Mayumi Oda's most explicitly Buddhist and most visually dramatic compositions. The dragon (ryū) in East Asian Buddhist iconography is a protective deity, guardian of the Dharma and bringer of rain and fertility; paired with Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, it forms one of the most powerful pairings in the Buddhist symbolic vocabulary. Oda's "green" variant suggests this is one of several chromatic versions of the same composition — the same design rendered in a dominant green palette that connects the golden dragon with the green world of growing things, the dragon's fertility-bringing rain nourishing the living earth. The large edition (57/100) indicates wide distribution.
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Kannon and Golden Dragon, Green (57/100) was created by Mayumi Oda (小田真由美).
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