Monju Bosatsu (Bodhisattva Manjusri) (Bodhisattva of Wisdom)
- Date:
- 1937
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Monju Bosatsu (Bodhisattva Manjusri, Bodhisattva of Wisdom) in this 1937 print is rendered at the moment of Munakata's most intensive Buddhist engagement. The sword that Monju carries — cutting through ignorance as the carving knife cuts through wood — creates an obvious, perhaps intentional parallel between the bodhisattva's function and Munakata's own creative act. His carving knife and Monju's sword of wisdom share the same quality of decisive, penetrating action, and this print may be understood as a self-identification of the artist with the deity of wisdom whose work is the liberation of the mind.
1960
Woodblock print
Shôwa period, 1926-1989
Woodblock print
1939-68
Woodblock print
1939 (printed 1955)
Woodblock print
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.
Monju Bosatsu (Bodhisattva Manjusri) (Bodhisattva of Wisdom) was created by Shiko Munakata (棟方志功) in 1937.
Monju Bosatsu (Bodhisattva Manjusri) (Bodhisattva of Wisdom) depicts temples & shrines and religious.