EXPLANATION OF PLATE CVI 



Bronze Buddha, 



(tokugawa period). 



Dimensions, including base and wooden goko — halo, 70 inches. Figure — 

 base to crown, 383^ inches; width of base, 32 14 inches; length of head, 

 133^ inches; width of face, 103^ inches. Cast in Ise, Japan, A. D. 1648. 



Japan, 1888. 129,965. 



Collected by Edward Greey. 



The drawing imperfectly conveys the majesty and repose of the original, the 

 modeling of which, with the exception of the hands, resembles that of the Kama- 

 kura figure. Its back is covered with the following engraved inscription. 



These contain many doctrinal and metaphysical words and phrases, of San- 

 scrit or Pali origin, which may be briefly translated, as follows: the form of 

 the record, names, etc., being transposed in order to render it intelligible to 

 Western readers : 



" This bronze image of 'The Buddha of Five Wisdoms, ' was made by Saburo- 

 biyoye Katsutane, son of the great caster, Yoshitane Tsuji of the Fujiwara clan, 

 whose title was Tajima no Kami, Anson, who lived at the Port of Yasuno in the 

 Province of Seishiu (Ise). 



" He respectfully cast it for Shichirouyemon Tadanori Takamine, who lives in the 

 town of Matsuzaka in the district of Jid'aka, Seishiu (Ise), whose religious name and 

 the religious name of his wife are given, and 'who desire the blessings of future life 

 for (the souls of) their Fathers, Mothers, and of six unnamed relatives, and for 

 themselves.' 



"It was respectfully offered by them to the temple of Joshozan Soan in Yamada, 

 Seishiu (Ise), on the 15th day 9th month of the ist(rat) year of the Period of Keian— 

 October 30th, 1648, when it was reverently consecrated by Slionin (Rev'd) Kwansei- 

 kudatsu, of the Society of Benren (Distinguished pure Lotus), twenty-first Priest of 

 the temple of Sanyenzan Zojo, in the district of Shiba, Yedo, Province of Bushiu 

 (Musa-d)." 



