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In november 1993 ging in zaal Wako, te Tokyo, een gezamenlijke tentoonstelling door van beeldhouwer Kokei Eri (de kunstenaar die onze Jikoji-Amida gemaakt heeft, wat hij trouwens apart in zijn catalogus vermeldt) en zijn echtgenote, kirikane-specialiste Sayako Eri. Het is uit haar catalogus dat we volgende passage uit hààr tekst lichten:
“It [i.e. kirikane] was originally one ot the crafts that developed as a means of heightening the dignity and authority of the nobility, but it flourished after being adopted for the adornment of Buddhist images, and it manifested for human eyes the world of Amida Buddha’s Pure Land.
When I was born, even the word kirikane had been forgotten, but I wished for the revival of the craft, which had passed through long periods of neglect, and have spent twenty years groping in the dark, seeking to apply it to Buddhist statues and to craft articles. Ideas arose with each new work, and I went through repeated cycles of invention and failure. Having now been able to see a ray of light, I can only believe it to be the Buddha’s guidance. The faces of those who have supported and encouraged me up to the present appear as Buddhas.
I feel now, facing my fifth exhibition, that I have finally been able to take a first step. I am filled with deep gratitude.”
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