Focus on Silken Painting of Emperor Go-Daigo and explain the Creation date.
In the "Emperor Go-Daigo's Reflections" in the "Genealogy of the Twelfth Sonkan Shonin", the following is recorded about the time of establishment (punctuation by Keiichi Uchida)..On the sixteenth day of the eighth month of the fourth year of the reign of the Emperor (the year of the Emperor / fifty-two), on the thirty-fifth day of the Emperor's buddhist ministry, the mandala for the Emperor's tutor, the Daigoji Temple seated master Ono Juho Zen High Priestess Koshin, the Head of Daigoji Temple, Reiou Jiou, the time of the Buddhābhiseka, the Emperor chatting to the shadow of the Emperor to the strange in the clouds, the rest of the people do not see the reason was recorded
In other words, Emperor Go-Daigo died on August 16, Engen4/Ryakuō2 (1339 September 19), and Emperor Go-Daigo abdicated、On the 35th day of the festival, a mandala service is held.was conducted by Hiroshimaru Bunkanbo..Bunkan has described this work as Buddhābhiseka..Then, in the eyes of the author of this document, there seemed to be a strange phenomenon in this work, an omen of good things to come..The idea was that Emperor Go-Daigo would appear as a "Kagemukai," or a god and a Buddha..However, the strangeness was not visible to anyone other than the author of this document.Therefore, the date when this work was opened and completed was September 20 (October 23, A.D.), which is the 35th day after Emperor Go-Daigo's death.Since it was not completed until after his death, it is unclear whether the composition and production of this work are the result of Godaigo's will or dying wish..According to Keiichi Uchida's conjecture, the creation of this work was not the will of the artist himself, but rather the idealized image of Go-Daigo in the eyes of those who admired the previous emperor who was left behind in the Southern Court after the collapse of Go-Daigo, and such idealized image from those around him may have been projected onto this work..According to the speculation of Motohiro Toyama, this work was originally painted as a normal portrait under the direction of Bunkan during the lifetime of Go-Daigo, but Bunkan regretted that he died before it was completed and hastily changed it to a deified image as an object of worship as a memorial to him.
Ryakuō Emperor Emperor Go-Daigo Bunkan Engen Southern Court Buddhābhiseka left portrait