{"id":669,"date":"2014-09-24T15:16:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T19:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/?p=669"},"modified":"2015-04-02T10:25:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T14:25:28","slug":"image-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/2014\/09\/24\/image-12\/","title":{"rendered":"12. Nyoirin Kannon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan, Edo period, ca. 1693; wood with gold, gold leaf, lacquer, and crystal inlay; 16 9\/16 x 12 1\/8 x 10 1\/4 in.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund 1956, 56.39, photo \u00a9 The Metropolitan Museum of Art; source: Art Resource, NY.<\/p>\n<p><b>Nyoirin<\/b> is an <b>esoteric<\/b> form of <b>Kannon <\/b>whose name means Jewel-holding Wheel-turning Lord of the World. This Japanese form of the <b><i>bodhisattva<\/i><\/b> usually has six arms, instead of the two seen here. Carved of wood, and then lacquered and gilded, this beguiling figure sits in a posture of <b>royal ease<\/b>. Nyoirin rests on a small pedestal meant to suggest Kannon\u2019s <b>Pure Land<\/b>, known in Japanese as <b>Fudarakusan<\/b>.\u00a0 One hand touches his cheek, indicating reflection. Interestingly, this two-armed form of Nyoirin is not holding a jewel or wheel, the attributes that give this <i>bodhisattva<\/i> his name. Japanese women may have supplicated the two-armed form of the deity to ensure the health and safe delivery of children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan, Edo period, ca. 1693; wood with gold, gold leaf, lacquer, and crystal inlay; 16 9\/16 x 12 1\/8 x 10 1\/4 in.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund 1956, 56.39, photo \u00a9 The Metropolitan Museum of Art; source: Art Resource, NY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3579,"featured_media":961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[69132],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-image","tag-image_12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/1740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}