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RARE ANTIQUE JAPANESE SOLID STERLING SILVER MICHIZANE GOD DEITY OF SCHOLARSHIP
$ 84.47
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RARE ANTIQUE JAPANESE SOLID STERLING SILVER MICHIZANE GOD DEITY OF SCHOLARSHIPPRESENTED IS THIS RARE EXTREMELY FINE HIGHLY DETAIL VINTAGE ANTIQUE JAPANESE SOLID STERLING SILVER FIGURINE STATUE DEPICTING THE IMAGE OF SUGAWARA NO MICHIZANE " THE JAPANESE GOD OF LEARNING OR SCHOLARSHIP " . IT IS STAMPED TO THE BACK WITH MAKER'S SIGNATURE AND JAPANESE STERLING SILVER MARK (JUN-GIN) , IT IS MOUNTED ON A SILVER PLATED BASE AND ENCASED IN THE ORIGINAL SIGNED PRESENTATION BOX , PLEASE SEE PHOTOS.
SIZE : THE MICHIZANE FIGURINE MEASURES APPROXIMATELY 3 3/8 INCHES OR 8.5 cm AT WIDEST POINT X 2 3/8 INCHES OR 6 cm DEEP X 3 1/8 INCHES OR 7.9 cm IN HEIGHT . THE BOX MEASURES 5 1/4 INCHES OR 13.4 cm WIDE X 7 1/2 INCHES OR 19 cm LONG X 7 1/8 INCHES OR 17.8 cm IN HEIGHT.
WEIGHT : THE TOTAL WEIGHT INCLUDING THE BOX IS 27.97 OZ OR 793
GRAMS.
CONDITION : THIS STUNNING RARE HIGHLY DETAIL SOLID SILVER MICHIZANE FIGURINE IS IN EXCELLENT VINTAGE ANTIQUE CONDITION WITH ONLY MINOR TARNISH AS CAN BE SEEN WITH NO BREAKS , NO DAMAGE,NO DENTS AND NO REPAIR . THERE IS MINOR WEAR AND STAINS TO THE PRESENTATION BOX AS SEEN IN THE PHOTOS.
Sgawara Michizane
,
posthumous name
Tenjin
(born
845
, Japan
—died
March 26, 903
, Dazaifu, Japan), Japanese political figure and scholar of
Chinese literature
the Heian period, who was later deified as Tenjin, the patron of scholarship and
literature
.
Sugawara was born into a family of scholars, and as a boy he began studying the Chinese classics. After passing the civil-service examination in 870 he entered the Japanese court as a scholar and poet. In 886 he was appointed governor of Sanuki Province (modern Kagawa prefecture) on the island of Shikoku.
However, he was exiled to Kyūshū as the result of a conspiracy of the Fujiwara family. After his death in exile there were several disasters in the capital of Kyoto which people believed were caused by his angry spirit. He was therefore reinstated and raised to the rank of a Shintō deity (renamed Karai Tenjin) and the Kitano Shrine was founded in his memory.
The Imperial court posthumously restored his title and office, and struck from the record any mention of his exile. Even this was not enough, and 70 years later Sugawara was deified as Tenjin
-
sama
, or
kami
of scholarship. Today many Shinto shrines in Japan are dedicated to him.
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