Mokujiki monastic name: Myoman
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Japanese, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1718, in Yamanashi Prefecture; died 1810.
Sculptor.
Mokujiki, like the sculptor Enku who died in 1695, was an unorthodox monk and sculptor, an artist and man of religion who was close to the people. At the age of 45 he received the ...
