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.
The final numbered print in an edition of sixty-six — Kanzeon (the Bodhisattva of Compassion) paired with a deer. The deer (shika) in Buddhist iconography appears in the Deer Park at Sarnath where the Buddha gave his first teachings, making it one of the most sacred of Buddhist animals. Oda's Kanzeon and Deer composition thus places the two most emblematic figures of Buddhist compassion and spiritual teaching in direct relationship: the bodhisattva who chose to remain in the world to help all beings attain liberation, paired with the animal that was present at the moment that teaching began. Being the last of sixty-six prints gives this composition a particular completeness, a sense of fulfillment.
Hebizukai
1932
Color woodblock print; oban
1935
Color woodblock print; oban
1964
Acrylic paint and oil pastel with oiled charcoal and ink over an ink and graphite underdrawing on paper
1964
Color lithograph with relief block and hand coloring; edition 35/36
Kanzeon and Deer (66/66) was created by Mayumi Oda (小田真由美).
Kanzeon and Deer (66/66) depicts animals.
