Segment of Sempukuji-kyo
- Date
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制作年 AD12
- Title
- ソウショクケゴンキョウダンカン（センプクジキョウ）
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-000477-0000
- 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）
- URL
- Classification
- Art
- AI Tagging
- Handwriting Wood Rectangle Font Art
This segment shows a sutra copied on indigo-dyed paper, made by first dying the fibers indigo-blue and then dissolving them in a vat. The floating fibers were scooped, formed and dried into sheets of paper. The scorches in the margins of this segment were caused by a fire during the Edo Period, but its beauty is undiminished. The paper, decorated with small gold flakes and ruled with gold mud, harmonizes with the carefully arranged, formal classical Japanese-style writing for a superb aesthetic effect.The exhibited piece is a copy of the Daiho Kobutsu Kegonkyo (Ch. Dafang Guangfo Huayan Jin) sutra translated into Chinese by Buddhabhadra of the Eastern Jing Dynasty. Formerly, this segment was handed down in Sempukuji Temple in Kawachi (today’s Osaka City), hence its name, Sempukuji-Kyo. After World War II, the whereabouts of this sutra, still preserved in a sutra box, were not unknown until it finally surfaced in the market. It is said that when this copy was re-discovered, it was preserved in fine cloth and silk veil, along with decorative paintings. In artistic style, the original sutra copy shows a design similar to the Honganji Anthology of Thirty-Six Poets of the earth 12th century.
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- Segment of Sempukuji-kyo
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- Weights and quantities
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Quantity 1幅
- Materials, techniques and shape
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Materials 金のもみ箔
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