@article{oai:tobunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00006389,
 author = {関口, 正之 and Sekiguchi, Masayuki},
 issue = {330},
 journal = {美術研究, The bijutsu kenkyu : the journal of art studies},
 month = {Dec},
 note = {The Hōzōji in Ochi-gun, Ehime Prefecture, owns a Seiryōji-type Śākyamuni statue with an inscription dated the fifth year of Bun'ei Era (1268). The inscription which is written on the inner cavity has not heretofore been published in its entirety and is here introduced based on the identical copy of the inscription preserved in the temple. The passage states that the Master Buddhist Sculptor Kōkei made the statues of Śākyamuni and two of his disciples, Maudgalyāyana and Ānanda, by the order of the ŌE and TAIRA families for the repose of the souls of the ŌE Family's ancestors and for the comfort of all people. In the Azuma Kagami, the chronicle of the Kamakura Shogunate, a family which seems to correspond to this ŌE family is referred to as one of the immediate subjects of the Shogunate. There fore it is presumable that the ŌE family held an influential status in the region.
     It is known that Gyōnen, a monk from Ochi-gun who was affiliated with the Kaidan-in and the Tōshō daiji in Nara, visited Ochi-gun around Bun'ei Era and that there was a Seiryōji type Śākyamuni image, made in the second year of Shōka Era (1258), in  the Tōshōdaiji. Gyōnen's visit to Ochi-gun may  therefore have been a factor in the production of  the Hōzōji images.
     The Śākyamuni of the Hōzōji is an assembled wood sculpture with carved (non-glass) eyes, measur ing about 165 cm, and is unpainted except for such  portions as the eyes, lips and mustache. One unique  point of this image is that the material is ōchi wood  with a clear-cut grain.
     The Kșitigarbha image in the Nyohōji in Ōzu all people. In the Azuma Kagami, the chronicle of City, which was made by Kōkei eight years later,  in 1276, displays a style similar to that of the Hōzōji  Śākyamuni. 
     By the way, a seated Seiryōji-type Śākyamuni is  in the Shussekiji in Nagahama Town, Kita-gun, and there is a tradition that it was transferred from  Mount Kōya monastery. It it somewhat close in form  to the seated Sākyamuni of the Hōshō-in in Kyoto.},
 pages = {38--40},
 title = {図版解説　泉涌寺蔵韋駄天画像},
 year = {1984}
}