Ashura? (One of the Eight Classes of Being)

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Ashura? (One of the Eight Classes of Being)

Artist Unknown

Culture Japanese

Title Ashura? (One of the Eight Classes of Being)

Date 897–1185

Medium Wood with gesso and traces of pigment

Dimensions Object: 41 7/8 × 12 11/16 × 6 3/4 in. (106.4 × 32.2 × 17.1 cm)
Overall (base is part of figure): 41 7/8 × 12 11/16 × 6 3/4 in. (106.4 × 32.2 × 17.1 cm)

Credit Line Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Henry R. Hope in Honor of Theodore Bowie, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 76.36

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