Gods are creatures who live in reincarnation, just like us humans and animals.

The Baby Series is a series that depicts the childhood of the gods in the form of cute, innocent, and lovable babies who still know nothing, before they become bodhisattvas or gods of the Shinto priesthood who save people from suffering by petition, believing that if they are reincarnated, the gods also have a time of birth.


The goddess Osukurushima is one of the members of the Five Great Myoo (Fudo Myoo, Descending Three Myoo, Gundari Myoo, Daimeitoku Myoo, and Osukurushima Myoo (sometimes Vajrayaksa is added in place of Osukurushima Myoo).

Among these, the Osukurushama Myoo is often represented in a variety of forms.
This time, I painted him in his one-faced, six-armed form.

At his feet, he is represented trampling on an elephant-headed, human-bodied evil deity called Ganesha (Vinayaka).
(Ganesha was an evil god before he became a good god in ancient India.)

Ganesha is said to burn away all desires and troubles, and to protect the human world from being invaded by impure things from the world of the Buddha.

Because he burns away impurity with his holy flame, he has become popular as the god of washing hands.

It is also believed that he has the power to make a child conceived in him a boy, and during the Heian period (794-1185), many court nobles believed passionately in him.



This work was created by imagining what he must have been like when he was a baby.

He is sitting on a potty, looking a little proud.

In his hands are a roll of toilet paper and a stuffed elephant.

She is also holding a lotus bud, a sign of a practitioner.


In the Baby-chan series, the items that the babies hold in their hands or place near them are linked to their possessions when they assume the form of a deity or Buddha, or to the story of that deity or Buddha, so that the foreshadowing can be recovered by learning about the form that is currently believed in.

Therefore, the statue of Ganesha, who tramples on the gods and Buddha to punish their misdeeds when they are gods and Buddha, is represented here as a stuffed elephant, a good friend and favorite who does not let go of him even when he goes to the toilet.


He is a cute, carefree baby, who does not yet know his mission or petition, and is no different from us human children.

It makes my heart swell to think that he will spend his youth and adolescence, experience many things, grow up in mind and body, and become a person who will make petitions and protect us day and night.


Some of the Buddha deities were originally feared by people because of their evil deeds.
Such deities also changed their minds after meeting Buddha, and are now watching over us as we practice day and night to petition for the salvation of people.

I hope to be able to paint a picture that will be close to people's hearts as I deepen my study in this way.

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