Wooden sculpture depicting Hokan Shaka Nyorai (宝冠釈迦如来), Japan, early Edo period (1610-1868 )Gofun, polychrome pigments, lacquer and gold leaf. It depicts Hokan Shaka Nyorai, the crowned Shaka Nyorai Buddha, known as the historical Buddha. He sits with his hands in meditation mudra (zenjō-in). His robe covers his arms, legs and part of his torso. It is decorated in relief with flowers and scrolls in a technique called domon 土紋, a decoration made from clay and fixed with lacquer. The hairstyle is topped with a high bun called hokei and girded with a thin tiara, the tenkandai. Two holes in the tenkaidai show that originally a golden copper crown, hokan, was attached to the head. The eyes are made of sulfide and the forehead is adorned with a byakugou - 白毫 (third eye symbolizing vision into the divine world) made of rock crystal. The base consists of three tiers: - a round gilded base decorated with stylized upside-down lotus petals; - above it, a thin open lotus flower on which rests a carved and openworked element decorated with lotus flowers and scrolls; - then, a large lotiform base whose petals are realistically carved. Each of the petals is covered with an ornament painted in polychrome and in relief according to the domon technique representing the three sacred jewels on a lotus (Sanbō no shinboru - 三宝のシンボル) symbolizing the Buddha: the enlightened one who has attained Nirvana, the Dharma: the Buddha's teaching, and the Shanga: the Buddhist monastic order. Height: 110 cmWear , accidents, restorations. Transformed lotiform base. The lower part of the base is probably later. The mandorla is missing.