Segment of Decorated Lotus Sutra Vol.6
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作者KUJŌ Kanezane
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制作年 平安
- Title
- ソウショクホケキョウマキダイロクダンカン
- Materials, techniques and shape
- 紙本墨書
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001460-0000
- 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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- Art
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- Brown Rectangle Wood Handwriting Font
This manuscript of the Lotus Sutra, Chapter Nineteen, “The Benefits of the Teachers of the Law,” is characterized by the extravagant decoration—hazy clouds drawn with silver and gold dust on paper dyed in reddish brown, while the top and bottom margins are elaborately decorated with miniscule silver and gold foils. The letters are cited from Chapter 19 of the Lotus Sutra, written in India ink between the golden rules. The alleged calligrapher is the Regent Kujo Kanezane (1149-1207), which, however, is not likely. After the complete printed copies of Buddhist scriptures were brought to Japan from China’s Sung Dynasty during the Heian Period, the Kasuga Prints, or Japan’s own printed sutras, were produced. Their influence is visible in the exhibit. (Note: Kasuga Prints are the sutra copies printed and published at the Kofukuji Temple in Yamato Province, today’s Nara Prefecture.) From the writing and decorative style, we can assume that this piece was produced during the late Heian Period, toward the latter half of the 12th century, concurrent with Lord Kanezane’s regency.
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