Ashura-O / Kegon fu (A Record of the Kegon Sutra)
- Date:
- 1937
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- British Museum
"Ashura-O / Kegon fu" — the Ashura King paired with a record of the Kegon Sutra — places one of Buddhism's most complex figures within Munakata's 1937 Kegon Sutra series. Ashura (Asura) is the king of the Asura realm, a realm of conflict between pride and duty — beings neither fully divine nor fully human, caught in perpetual struggle. The pairing with the Kegon Sutra's waterfall imagery (the sutra's visual language is rich in water and light) creates a compositional tension between the Asura's turbulent nature and the sutra's vision of universal interdependence.
1960
Woodblock print
Shôwa period, 1926-1989
Woodblock print
1939-68
Woodblock print
1939 (printed 1955)
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Ashura-O / Kegon fu (A Record of the Kegon Sutra) was created by Shiko Munakata (棟方志功) in 1937.
Ashura-O / Kegon fu (A Record of the Kegon Sutra) depicts waterfalls and religious.
