Lacquer Buddha
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1893
name: label: Donor Name
content: Tetsuka Shimamura & Company
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Lacquered and gilt. Seated in the "easy pose," holding a scepter or wand. Behind is a halo, in form of a fig leaf, in remembrance of the tree under which Sakya Muni attained Buddhahood. Amitabha, or, as the Japanese name him, Amida, is one of the celestial meditation Buddhas. He is the most popular divinity of Northern Buddhism."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Japanese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 027832
label: USNM Number
content: E154964-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Buddha