Kannon and Golden Dragon, Green (57/100)
by Mayumi Oda
by Mayumi Oda
Key value factors: For living or recently deceased artists, limited edition size and gallery representation drive value. Signed and numbered prints from smaller editions are most desirable.
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.
伏見稲荷
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Uji Byodoin no ichibu
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Kannon and Golden Dragon, Green (57/100) was created by Mayumi Oda (小田真由美).
Kannon and Golden Dragon, Green (57/100) depicts temples & shrines, religious, and mythology.
