紀要No.15 長坂一郎

ブックの説明

山形美術館蔵新海竹太郎作「聖観音像」の制作背景について
A production aim of standing statue of Shohkan’on by
Taketaro Shinkai

長坂一郎
NAGASAKA Ichiro

「As for Yamagata Museum’s” standing statue of Shohkannon(35.8cm)”,Chuta
Itoh reproduced the image which Taketaro Shinkai’s work produced by a
request of Tsurumi-Sohjiji Temple as an offering when Kuninomiya Yoshiko
married to be a Princess in 1924(Taisho 13), in the next year. The image
derives from the Shohkannon of Toh-indo Yakushiji Temple, Shinkai just did
the similar image of “The Great Shokannon Bosatsu statue” less than 50m for
the honoring of the Emperor Meiji in Sohjiji Temple for the same period. Even
if both images are similar at their appearances, each purpose is different. On
the offering image, “The Shohkannnon of Yakushiji Temple” was conformed
to the theory of art historian Takurei Hirako, an intimate friend, to be the
image which the Empress made the request for the Emperor, and “The Great
Shohkannon Bosatsu” reached the molding as an example of the study of the
classic sculptures. The expectations both Sohjiji Temple and Taketaro Shinkai
would be mixed in there.」