White-Robed Kannon, 15th century, Unknown Japanese, 38 1/4 × 15 1/2 in. ( × cm) (image)72 3/8 × 22 1/4 in. ( × cm) (mount, without roller), Ink on silk (hanging scroll), Japan, 15th century, Painted images of the Buddhist deity Kannon wearing white robes and seated on a rocky outcropping emerged in China during the Tang dynasty (618–907) and became important in the Zen sect of Buddhism before it was introduced to Japan a few hundred years later. Such images refer to a passage from the Avatamsaka Sutra, a sacred Buddhist text that narrates the story of Zenzai Dōji

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