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A wooden sculpture of a slender person standing upright on a detailed pedestal. They are wearing draped cloth that covers their legs and goes across their shoulder and chest. They are wearing a small headpiece and have short hair.

Standing Arya-Avalokiteshvara (Shō Kannon bosatsu) on a Lotus Base, one from a set of 1,000 images formerly in Kōfuku-ji, Nara

Japanese

Wood, single-woodblock construction; with traces of polychrome and lacquer-applied gold leaf

Heian period, Late, 898-1185

Sculpture