Overview
Koyasan Reihokan Museum stores totally 78,000 cultural items. Among them 28,000 are designated cultural items, including 21 sets of National Treasures, 149 sets of Important Cultural Properties, 18 sets of Cultural Properties Designated by Wakayama Prefecture, and 2 sets of Important Art Objects. The main part of the collection consists of Buddhist paintings, Buddhist sculptures, Buddhist implements for Esoteric Buddhist practices, calligraphies of documents and sutras, and archeological objects.
The term “Buddha” refers to four different venerable statuses:
- Nyorai, who has already been enlightened.
- Bosatsu, who stays with us while he is on the way toward becoming enlightened.
- Myoo, who watches over us with his anguish faces, to prevent us from straying onto wrong paths.
- Ten, who was included into Buddhist cosmology from Indian mythology.
Since we can’t display all the items stored simultaneously, we change the display from time to time. So please come and check the museum often.
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Important Cultural Property SculptureSeated Dainichi-Nyorai (Mahavairocana)
Kongobuji temple -
National Treasure PaintingGodairiki Bosatsu (Bodhisattvas)
Yushi-Hachimanko -
Important Cultural Property SculptureSeated Fudoo-Myoo (Acalanatha)
Kongobuji temple
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Important Cultural Property SculptureKomoku-ten (Virūpākṣa)
Kongobuji temple -
Important Cultural Property CraftThe Flying Three-pronged Vajra
(Higyo-Sankosho)Kongobuji temple -
National Treasure CalligraphyIndications for the Deaf and Blind (Roko Shiiki: Comparative Study of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism)
Kongobuji temple
NOTE
- These Treasures are Not always Exhibited.
- They may be sent out to special exhibitions at other museums.
- Unauthorized use of images is NOT allowed.