Location Kanazawa University Museum
Stone pagoda suirin (small) from Kanazawa Castle, Omiya Site
- Display status
- No permanent display
- Period
- Muromachi period (early - middle 14th century)
- Form/Type
- Archaeological material
- Location
- Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Pref.
This item is a stone pagoda suirin (spherical piece) excavated from the Omiya Site of Kanazawa Castle. It is one of the stone items excavated in 1971, when the Faculty of Science, Kanazawa University was built. It is made of tuff and considered to be a part of five-storied pagoda. It is 14.1cm high and engraved clearly with the Brahmic script of “vam” in a circle, which represents Mahāvairocana in the kongo world. It is considered to have been made in the early ~ middle 15th century. This is a stone structure related to graves in the Middle Ages and a valuable material showing the condition before the construction of Kanazawa Castle.
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Established in 1989 to preserve and utilize valuable materials handed down from the predecessor school when the university campus was relocated from Kanazawa Castle Site. Former teaching materials such as beautifully shaped physics experiment apparatus and mushroom moulage specimens that allow you to observe mushrooms as they were 100 years ago are fun-to-see natural museum materials in the museum's collection. The museum also holds many archive such as timetables that show the hard work of medical students 100 years ago, as well as archaeological materials excavated within the campus.
Kakuma, Kanazawa, 920-1192 Google Maps
TEL 076-264-5215 E-mail museum@adm.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
