Segment of Lotus Sutra on Designed Purple Paper
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制作年 AD11
- Title
- シシチョウトリシタエホケキョウ（カンボツホン）ダンカン
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-002459-0000
- License
- CC BY Images license
- Creditline
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慶應義塾（センチュリー赤尾コレクション）
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- Classification
- Art
- AI Tagging
- Handwriting Font Writing Wood Art
The Lotus Sutra, Chapter 28, “The Encouragement of Bodhisattva Universally Worthy,” is copied on lavishly decorated lavender-colored paper. The rules are drawn with fine gold mud, and the paper is further decorated with sketches of familiar motifs such as small plants, flowers, butterflies and birds. A similar manuscript named “Fragment of Lotus Sutra Manuscript with Birds and Butterflies Designs,” allegedly commissioned by Empress Komyo, has been preserved in the Exemplars of Calligraphic Masterpieces (Jp. Kohitsu Tekagami). That famous fragment of sutra manuscript has sketches of butterflies, birds, twigs and small plants drawn in silver and gold mud decorating the ryoshi paper, which was sprayed with clove lye. Although the exhibited piece differs from the alleged Empress Komyo’s commission, it is one of the very rare decorated sutra manuscripts. Due to the exhibit’s similarity in the writing style and paper preparation to the Katsura-bon Manyoshu (ancient poetic anthology Manyoshu preserved by the imperial Katsura family for generations), currently preserved at the Sanno-Maru Shozokan Warehouse of the Imperial Household Agency, this piece was likely produced around the mid-11th century and offers valuable insight into the painting style of the era.
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