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Manjushri (Manjusri) — the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, typically depicted wielding a sword that cuts through ignorance and riding a lion — here accompanied by a sea turtle in Mayumi Oda's feminist revision of Buddhist iconography. Where the traditional Manjushri rides a lion and commands the masculine energies of discernment and swift decisive wisdom, Oda's Manjushri is paired with the sea turtle — ancient, patient, long-lived, deeply embedded in the aquatic world — suggesting a different quality of wisdom: slow, accumulated, attentive to depth and time rather than to the sharp sword-stroke of intellectual cutting. The diptych format gives the composition room to explore the relationship between the two figures across its full expanse.
1940
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Boshu Taikai
1925
Color woodblock print; oban
September 1931
Color woodblock print; oban
Manjusri and the Sea Turtle Diptych (22/50) was created by Mayumi Oda (小田真由美).
Manjusri and the Sea Turtle Diptych (22/50) depicts seascapes and animals.
