koji　居士

KEY WORD :　art history / iconography

Originally a Hindi term ghra-pati meaning a householder, trader or farmer. In China the term came to be applied particularly to learned and virtuous men, and in Japan it refers to a devoted but secular follower of the Buddha *Shaka 釈迦.

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