virgin-figure

Updated: May 18, 2025

Here also is Buddha slumbering, with the gentlest, softest Japanese face a child face and eyes closed, and hand pillowing the cheek, in Nirvana. Here is a beautiful virgin-figure, standing upon a lily: Kwannon-Sama, the Japanese Madonna.

Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan : First Series