Buddha's offering plate

Japanese: 灌仏盤 - かんぶつばん
Buddha's offering plate

...It is said that immediately after his birth, Shakyamuni took seven steps in each direction, pointed to the sky with his right hand and to the earth with his left hand, and said, "I am the greatest winner in the world." A bronze sculpture of this figure is called a Newborn Buddha, and most of them are naked from the waist up, covered with a skirt, and stand in a Buddha-baptism basin. There are variants of the Newborn Buddha that point to the sky with their left hand and the earth with their right hand, and there are also wooden Newborn Buddhas....

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Buddha Kanbutsu Ban" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…釈迦は生まれてすぐ四方に7歩ずつ歩み,右手で天,左手で地を指さし,〈天上天下唯我独尊〉(わたくしは世の中の最勝者である)といったと伝える。その姿を銅造でかたどったものが誕生仏で,その多くは上半身を裸形,下半身に裙(くん)をまとい,灌仏盤中に立つ。誕生仏の異形として左手で天,右手で地を指さすものがあり,また木造の誕生仏もある。…

※「灌仏盤」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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