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品名（中）	千臂坎农刺绣
品名（英）	Embroidery of a Thousand-Armed Kannon
入馆年号	2013年，2013.114
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Unidentified artist
创作年份	公元 1467 - 公元 1533
创作地区
分类	刺绣纺织品（Textiles-Embroidered）
尺寸	整体: 76 3/4 x 31 1/8 英寸 (195 x 79 厘米)
介绍（中）	这幅中世纪晚期极为罕见的佛教刺绣作品描绘了一位千臂观音（日语：Senju Kannon）。这种精心制作的纺织品是作为一种虔诚的行为精心缝制的，个人或一群信徒会委托它们来获得宗教价值。出于风格上的考虑，这件作品出现在十五世纪末或十六世纪初，与线样本的放射性碳年代测定相一致 Senju Kannon，一位富有同情心的菩萨的化身，有十一个头（júichimen）和多只手臂。虽然senju的字面意思是"一千只手臂"，但这个神的雕刻和绘画版本通常会将手臂减少到有限的数量，比如十只。在这里，神的中央手掌被压在一起，形成一个gasshō，一种问候和崇敬的手势。其他的手挥舞着手鼓、朝觐杖、三叉戟、法轮、许愿珠宝、弓箭、铃铛和念珠。坎农的雕像站在莲花平台上，周围环绕着一个曼陀罗，莲花支架上有十一个圆盘。上图是代表月亮和太阳的球体。日本汉字júban十番上图表明这件作品来自四国省八十八寺朝圣路线中的"第十"寺。
介绍（英）	This exceedingly rare example of late medieval Buddhist embroidery depicts a Thousand-armed Kannon (Japanese: Senju Kannon). Such elaborate textiles were painstakingly stitched as an act of devotion and an individual or group of believers would commission them in order to gain religious merit. Stylistic considerations place this work in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, which concurs with radiocarbon dating of thread samples. Senju Kannon, a manifestation of a compassionate bodhisattva, has eleven heads (jūichimen) and multiple arms. Though senju literally means “one-thousand arms,” sculpted and painted version of this deity often reduce the arms to a finite number, such as ten. Here, the palms of the deity’s central hands are pressed together to form a gasshō, a gesture of greeting and reverence. Other hands wield a hand drum, pilgrim’s staff, trident, Dharma wheel, wish-granting jewels, bow and arrows, bell, and prayer beads. The figure of Kannon stands on a lotus platform surrounded by a mandorla with eleven disks on lotus flower supports. Above the figure are orbs representing the moon and sun. The Japanese characters jūban 十番 above the figure indicates that this work is from the “tenth” temple in the Eighty-Eight Temple Pilgrimage Route of Shikoku Province.