Japanese Michelangelo What kind of personality was Unchou Ishikawa?
Unchou Ishikawa, from Bakumatsu, early years of Meiji era, the master craftsman of a sculpture who called and played an active part by Niigata-ken.
The wooden sculpture with color vivid and full of uplifting feeling was left for a temple of a prefecture various.
Layout of a stone sculpture, a painting and a cathedral as well as a wood carving work is various for its ability, and more than 1000 works also exist in a prefecture at present.
Unchou Ishikawa (real name: Yasube Ishikawa) was born in Zoshigaya in present Tokyo in 1814 (1814).
The heart of Edo chou Ishikawa way is won by jakkan about 20 years old, and it's said that you permitted the last name sword wearing.
It's that you could be around 32 years old, explain to Sanjo's hardware trade and Matazo Uchiyama and advance it that I emigrated, and you're telling Niigata to have determined on a move.
After that while carrying on production activity in the neighborhood using Sanjo as a foothold, it was a son-in-law of Sanjo's Sakai family by Mr. Uchiyama's care and was Echigo person.
There is nothing to stay with a record his own photograph, a portrait and the character because a residence of Unchou Ishikawa and the Honjyo-ji Temple which is a family temple are burned away.
But the Unchou Ishikawa as a person is very mysterious through wonderful, and a work is attractive existence.
I touch a work, and, "With Unchou, on earth, what kind of, I'd grow up...", there is a romance very much and it'll be one of how to enjoy oneself a Unchou work to let the thoughts wander.
It's surrounded a work of Unchou Ishikawa.
2 temples where the work Unchou Ishikawa handled is left exist in the Uonuma city.
I have a close relation with Unchou Ishikawa and it's possible to watch and know services of Unchou and an episode of alive.
[Eirin-ji Temple]
The temple where the edge where Unchou Ishikawa was the trigger which comes to the Uonuma city is here.
The Bensyo chief bonze who is a chief priest in at that time fell into the capacity of the Unchou Ishikawa, and I approached about the big gambling to which I say "If you excelled, time and effort paid money of a produced consideration, and if I excelled, didn't regret and produced an effort in a serving of main hall of Eirin-ji Temple."
A Bensyo chief bonze wins the result, and you're telling that Unchou Ishikawa came to this Eirin-ji Temple in 1855 (1855).
Though I slept in the temple, all kinds' sculpture hung the time 13 year old one, and produced various works from layout in a main hall for the Unchou Ishikawa which rebuilt a main hall. Surprisingly, its number also reaches 108 points and is inherited today.
Details of Eirin-ji Temple, here->Eirin-ji Temple
[Saifuku-ji Temple (Kaizando)]
Kaizando of the Saifuku-ji Temple which knew the rumor of Unchou Ishikawa that a chief priest Banokudairyu chief bonze in this temple is sculpting Takanori Shrine of Honjyo-ji Temple and Tochio by Sanjo and is playing an active part already, showed in and was established.
When a dairyu chief bonze told the hot Buddhistic austerities heart which can be written on Kaizando, Unchou understood the expectation well, gave the form as a sculpture and expressed excellently.
Because it's a first thing that only this big work can also be left by itself for Unchou Ishikawa, and I'm making a flower of a large wheel in bloom as a sculptor taking this as a start, it's said that they had a big influence on an encounter with dairyu Buddhist priest a life of Unchou.
Request spans from here and there taking the masterpiece of Kaizando as an opportunity, and Unchou will become Echigo's master craftsman.
Details of Saifuku-ji Temple (Kaizando), here-> Saifuku-ji Temple (Kaizando)
[The prefecture facilities where a Unchou work is left]
| Area | Landmark | Highlight |
|---|---|---|
| Sanjyo city | Honjyo-ji Temple | A sculpture of carp and a grave of Unchou are built with aged people in a worship place at shrine and temple. |
| Isurugi Shrine | A work in the sunset is left for a sculpture of a dragon and a hall of worship transom in a worship place at shrine and temple much. | |
| Nagaoka city | Takanori Shrine | The sculpture in which the whole shrine building is buried. A sericultural work also leaves the trace in this place at the inside. |
| Rinkoan Temple | Lion Tree peony of the lion mask and the transom in the Suya step left and right in a main hall is left. | |
| Akibasanjyakuboudaigongen | The crow-billed tengu goblin in the shrine building and young warrior's work of Okuno-in are left. | |
| Niigata city | Bukko-ji Temple | Many works of a tapir of one thousand folded paper cranes and masukumi are left. |
| Tsubame city | Hontoku-ji Temple | A signature of Unchou is left for a lion mask in a worship place at shrine and temple and a lion mask of a sculpture of a wave and a turtle. |
| Kamo city | Jyunisan Shrine | A work is left for the pillar upper part in a worship place at shrine and temple, a tip of a bar and the side sliding paper door artist's signature and seal. |
| Minamiuonuma city | Anajijyunidaimyojin | An incomplete work of nue extermination of Minamoto no Yorimasa is left. |
| Choon-ji Temple | ※ It's closed. | |
| Ryukoku-ji Temple | A tapir, a giraffe, a lion Unchou likes and a wild boar are left. | |
| Yuzawa-machi | Izushoan Temple | The forces of the image of the two Deva kings at the cherry tree gate are highlights. |
The Facilities which isn't opened to the public is also included. There is also a temple where the admission charge isn't set, so a will will be added, and I recommend one in case of inspection to inspect and visit.
Unchou Ishikawa facility map in in the Uonuma city and Niigata-ken
Using a public transportation of the Shinkansen and a train, reservation is unnecessary in a case concerning a work of Unchou Ishikawa, and it's available on the day, "from the station, Kantakun" is recommended.
"From the station, Kantakun"Details are this.
Guide and the Unchou Ishikawa which goes (Unchou guide)
It's recommended to go around the way where I'd like to know about a work of Unchou Ishikawa and Unchou Ishikawa more deeply and enjoy myself with the local tour guide who knew everything of Unchou Ishikawa!
It may be to hear the detailed explanation of a work and be new discovery again.
※ It's possible not to ask about a group and an individual and to arrange a guide.
※ Japan can't sometimes arrange. Please accept it beforehand.
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