Illustrated Frontispiece to the Sutra of Enlightenment through the Accumulation of Merit and Virtue, the So-called Jingoji Sutra
Illustrated Frontispiece to the Sutra of Enlightenment through the Accumulation of Merit and Virtue, the So-called Jingoji Sutra, 集一切福徳三昧経., late Heian period (ca. 900–1185), ca. 1150–85, Japan, Handscroll; gold and silver on indigo-dyed paper, 10 3/16 in. x 27 ft. 6 9/16 in. ( x cm), Paintings, This scroll bears a large rectangular Jingo-ji seal in red ink below the title, indicating that it once belonged to the set of more than five thousand sutra scrolls known as the Jingo-ji sutras. The retired emperor Toba (1103–1156) commissioned the transcription of these sutras about 1149
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