{"id":32145,"date":"2024-08-09T18:24:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T09:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tsumugu-admin.yomiuri.co.jp\/en\/?p=32145"},"modified":"2024-08-09T18:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T09:24:25","slug":"bamiyan-buddhas-murals-mitsui-memorial-museum-202407","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tsumugu.yomiuri.co.jp\/en\/feature\/bamiyan-buddhas-murals-mitsui-memorial-museum-202407\/","title":{"rendered":"Delving into Bamiyan&#8217;s lost Buddhas and murals at Mitsui Memorial Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">The two colossal Buddhas carved into a hillside in Bamiyan and the murals adorning the niches were destroyed in March 2001, when the Islamic fundamentalist organization Taliban blew up the archaeological site in Afghanistan, which is often cited as the crossroads of civilization. However, Japanese researchers in recent years were able to create elaborate line drawings of the murals depicting what is said to be the Zoroastrian sun god Mithra and the Tushita heaven, where the future Buddha Maitreya is believed to reside, based on detailed photographs and other related materials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Crossroads of Civilization<br><strong>The Bamiyan Giant Buddhas<\/strong><br>Sun God and Maitreya Beliefs from Gandhara to Japan<\/p><p>Sep 14 (Sat) &#8211; Nov 12 (Tue), 2024<\/p><p>Mitsui Memorial Museum<br>(Nihonbashi, Tokyo)<\/p><cite>*See outline below for details<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The line drawings (ink on paper), made by Kyoto City University of Arts Associate Professor Masako Shogaki in 1\/10 scale under supervision of Nagoya University Professor Emeritus Akira Miyaji, were featured in an exhibition titled &#8220;The Bamiyan Giant Buddhas &#8212; Sun God and Maitreya Beliefs from Gandhara to Japan,&#8221; which ran at the Ryukoku Museum in Kyoto earlier this year (2024). The same exhibition is coming to Tokyo this fall to be held at the Mitsui Memorial Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-tsumugu-blocks-modal-image wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/34de962b459a29897d9ef15103f537a4-3.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Line drawing of the wall painting of the Bamiyan East Giant Buddha niche, supervised by MIYAJI Akira and illustrated by SHOGAKI Masako (detail)<br\/>Ryukoku Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exhibition in Tokyo, set to open on Sept. 14, 2024, will again highlight the line drawings, which can serve as future reference for furthering the study of Maitreya beliefs in ancient Central Asia, which eventually spread to East Asia, including Japan. Buddhist statues of the Maitreya belonging to the Gandhara idiom &#8212; such as the &#8220;Seated Bodhisattva Maitreya with crossed legs&#8221; (2nd-3rd century; top left photo) &#8212; as well as those from Buddhist temples and other institutions in Japan &#8212; such as the &#8220;Seated Bodhisattva Maitreya with one leg pendent&#8221; (dated 666; top right photo) of Yachu-ji temple in Osaka, a designated important cultural property &#8212; will also go on display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other items to go on display:<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-tsumugu-blocks-modal-image wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/fc31e96a2fe61d70d4882c91e4879989.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya<br\/>Kamakura period, 13th century<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"790\" src=\"\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/76515b444d5b7a85c2e14cd705f9ddce-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32168\"\/><figcaption>Saddharmapu\u1e47\u1e0dar\u012bka S\u016btra in Chinese, vol. 7 (translated by Kum\u0101raj\u012bva)<br>Dunhuang, Tang dynasty, dated 676 (Shangyuan 3)<br>Mitsui Memorial Museum <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"790\" src=\"\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/99ffc84dfa184ee468ce308eac7ea0e8-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32158\"\/><figcaption>S\u016brya capital of column<br>Gandhara, 2nd-3rd century<br>Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"790\" src=\"\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/75f16c54d66b50acd45753204572b2bb-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32167\"\/><figcaption>S\u016brya<br>Mathura, 4th-6th century<br>Ryukoku Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-tsumugu-blocks-modal-image wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/7a7e067c210df91010c4b590e724a1a1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Miniature votive st\u016bpa<br\/>Gandhara, 2nd-3rd century<br\/>Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two colossal Buddhas carved into a hillside in Bamiyan and the murals adorning the niches were destroyed i [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":32173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[407],"tags":[578,302,576,197,184],"class_list":["post-32145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","tag-bamiyan","tag-buddhist_art","tag-buddhist_sculptures","tag-mitsui_memorial_museum","tag-tokyo"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Delving into Bamiyan&#039;s lost Buddhas and murals at Mitsui Memorial Museum | \u7d21\u3050\u30d7\u30ed\u30b8\u30a7\u30af\u30c8<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The line drawings (ink on paper), made by Kyoto City University of Arts Associate Professor Masako Shogaki in 1\/10 scale under supervision of Nagoya University Professor Emeritus Akira Miyaji, were featured in an exhibition titled &quot;The Bamiyan Giant Buddhas -- Sun God and Maitreya Beliefs from Gandhara to Japan,&quot; which ran at the Ryukoku Museum in Kyoto earlier this year (2024). 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