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The at Tōdai-ji in the city of Nara in Japan, along with the lustration basin in which the image stands, are of the type used in the annual celebrations of the Buddha's birth on 8 April. The statue and its basin date to the Nara period and have been designated National Treasures. ==Subject== The birth of Shaka, the historical Buddha (Sanskrit: Siddhārtha Gautama or Śākyamuni), is one of the eight major events in the life of the Buddha that formed a popular subject for artistic representation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Shaka hassou )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Shaka )〕 While Māyā was walking in the Lumbinī gardens and had stopped to pick flowers, the Buddha is said to have emerged from her right side.〔〔 According to the ''Dīrghāgama Sūtra'', the young prince immediately took seven steps in the four directions and declared "in the Heavens and on Earth, only I am the Venerable One".〔天上天下唯我独尊 (''tenjō tenga yuiga dokuson''); as a modern idiom these words are sometimes used to satirize self-aggrandizing conceit〕〔 The ''Lalitavistara'' relates that the infant was then bathed by two nāga, Nanda and Upananda, serpent deities or Dragon Kings.〔〔 The ''Sutra on the meritorious action of bathing the Buddha's image'' was translated into Chinese in 710.〔 Reenacting the legend of the Buddha's birth, the annual rite known as ''kanbutsu-e'' ("rite of sprinkling the Buddha", more popularly ''hana matsuri'' or "flower festival") sees the bathing of small Buddha statues amidst garlands of flowers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kanbutsu-e )〕 Perfumed water was once used but, since the nineteenth century, this has generally been replaced by sweet hydrangea tea known as ''amacha''.〔''Amacha'' was also used to sweeten beverages, before the introduction of sugar to Japan in the seventeenth century; mixed with ink it is used to write on paper that is the glued to the wall of houses to ward off insects〕〔〔 Another variant sees the image repeatedly wiped with a silk cloth rather than anointed. Celebrations of the Buddha's birth have been staged in Japan on the eighth day of the fourth month since Empress Suiko ordered that vegetarian feasts should be held in all the temples in 606.〔 ''Kanbutsu-e'' or "sprinkling" ceremonies are known to have been held at the Seiryōden, led by a priest from Gangō-ji, in 840 and the ''Engi shiki'' lists the utensils used at these Palace ceremonies.〔 Earlier temple records and inventories of their treasures list ''kanbutsuzō'' or "images for sprinkling" at Hōryū-ji and Daian-ji, and early surviving examples include one dating to the Asuka period at in Aichi Prefecture (Important Cultural Property).〔 This example at Tōdai-ji is generally dated to the 750s.〔〔 At Tōdai-ji today, a is erected each year before the Daibutsuden (Great Buddha Hall). This National Treasure Shaka at Birth was still used in the ceremony when Langdon Warner was writing in the late 1950s and indeed as late as the 1980s. More recently it has been replaced with a copy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shaka at Birth (Tōdai-ji)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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