This unusual single-pronged vajra pestle is unlike any other known to exist. There are ginkgo-seed shapes instead of circles comprising the motif of “demon eyes” at the center of its handle, and the band on either side of this motif has only outward-facing lotus petals instead of a typical double band of mirroring petals. Perhaps its unusual form is modeled after an earlier vajra pestle of some importance. It comes from Kakuanji Temple in Nara.
 
NAITO SakaeEnglish by Mary Lewine 
Buddhist Art Paradise: Jewels of the Nara National Museum. Nara National Museum, 2021.7, p.331, no.220.