Wood identification of Japanese Shinto deity statues in Matsunoo-taisha Shrine in Kyoto by synchrotron X-ray microtomography and conventional microscopy methods

Journal of Wood Science

Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 1 Details of deity statues and identification results

Statue number	Statue in Fig. 1	Height (cm) cited from Ref. [6]	Wood species	Place of enshrinement (auxiliary/subsidiary shrines of the Matsunoo-taisha Shrine), cited from Ref. [6]
Female deity 1	a	42.8	Zelkova serrata	Ichitani-jinja Shrine or Munakata-jinja Shrine
Female deity 3	b	33.6	Torreya nucifera	Ichitani-jinja Shrine or Munakata-jinja Shrine
Female deity 4	c	29.8	Torreya nucifera	San-nomiya-jinja Shrine
Female deity 5	d	29.4	Prunus s.l. sp.^a	Konpira-jinja Shrine
Female deity 6	e	35.1	Prunus s.l. sp.^a	Unknown
Male deity 8	f	42.8	Prunus s.l. sp.^a	Koromode-jinja Shrine
Male deity 9	g	38.4	Prunus s.l. sp.^a	Unknown
Male deity 10	h	39.0	Prunus s.l. sp.^a	Shino-ōkami-no-yashiro-jinja Shrine
Male deity 11	i	31.6	Prunus s.l. sp.^a	Shino-ōkami-no-yashiro-jinja Shrine
Priestly attire deity 15	j	40.5	Prunus s.l. sp.^a	Unknown
Priestly attire deity 16	k	35.3	Prunus s.l. sp.^a	Unknown

Especially, female deity statues 3 and 4 have similar ink inscriptions at the bottom though they were enshrined at different auxiliary/subsidiary shrines. From ink inscriptions, they are supposed to be made in 1143
^aSpecies is not defined