Great Daruma

Great Daruma was a monumental portrait of Bodhidharma, the Buddhist monk of the 5th or 6th century revered in Japan as Daruma, drawn by the painter and printmaker Katsushika Hokusai on October 5, 1817, in a courtyard beside the Hongan-ji Nagoya Betsuin temple in Nagoya, Japan. Executed on paper spread across the courtyard, the portrait measured about 59 by 35 feet and showed the monk's head and upper body wrapped in flowing robes, with features on a correspondingly vast scale, eyes some 70 inches wide, a nose about 105 inches long and a mouth roughly 82 inches across. The public spectacle of its creation drew wide attention and helped establish Hokusai's local reputation. The original drawing no longer exists, having been destroyed along with the temple's wooden building during the bombing of Nagoya in May 1945, though a recreation was made in 2017 to mark its bicentennial, with the cooperation of Aichi University of the Arts and the Nagoya City Museum. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/