地蔵菩薩来迎図, Jizō Bosatsu in Welcoming Descent (Jizō bosatsu raigō), Unidentified Artist, 14th century

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地蔵菩薩来迎図, Jizō Bosatsu in Welcoming Descent (Jizō bosatsu raigō), Kamakura period (1185–1333), 14th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink, color, and cut gold on silk, Image: 36 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Unidentified Artist, Veneration of the bodhisattva Jizō (Sanskrit: Kshitagarbha) became widespread during the Kamakura period. Among the iconographies associated with Jizō that originated in this period is this one, in which he manifests in the guise of a monk and rushes through the air to aid the suffering, especially those in hell

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