The Korean Seated Bodhisattva—likely based on one of the celebrated gilt-bronze meditating Maitreya figures that are among Korea's greatest sculptural treasures—shows Saito extending his Buddhist figure work beyond the Japanese tradition. The Korean pensive Maitreya, with its slender body and the characteristic pose of one leg crossed over the other, one hand raised to the cheek, is formally distinct from Japanese Buddhist sculpture of the same type, and Saito's rendering would note those formal differences.
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.
Korean Statue of a Seated Bodhisattva, Shôwa period, was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Korean Statue of a Seated Bodhisattva, Shôwa period, depicts temples & shrines, religious, and seascapes.
