Bronze Sutra Cylinder
- Date
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制作年 AD12
- Title
- ドウセイキョウヅツ・ノウニュウキョウカンザンケツ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- Bronze
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001389-0000
- 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
- Rectangle Art Cylinder Artifact Natural material
This bronze sutra cylinder has a closely-fitting lid. The wall of the body is rather thin and is decorated with a single line close to the bottom. As a very similar sutra cylinder was found in sutra mounds in Mt. Inari in Fushimi, Kyoto, perhaps this exhibit also originated in the Kinai area (Kyoto, Osaka and Nara). The lid has a tiered design with the central top forming a beautiful line typical of the ancient Heian Court. The scriptures dedicated by the petitioner were hand-copied on paper and then preserved in the sutra cylinder. Over the hundreds of years, the paper has eroded and only a handful of scriptures have survived to this day. However, this sutra cylinder, when discovered, contained a sutra written in India ink and another written in red ink, likened to blood. The exhibit shows what’s left of the Sutra of Meditation on the Bodhisattva Universal Virtue (Jap. Kanfugen Kyo). Considering the practice of the times, this cylinder may have housed the 8-volume Lotus Sutra (Jap. Hokke Kyo), one-volume of Sutra of Immeasurable Meanings (Jap. Muryo Gikyo) and the exhibited one-volume Kanfugen Kyo. The cylinder is so big that it perhaps contained other Jodo-Sect Buddhist scriptures. The exhibit is one of the rarest historical finds.
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- Title (EN)
- Bronze Sutra Cylinder
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- Weights and quantities
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Quantity 1合
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- 内容物（経巻か）、とめビス
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