高野四所明神像, The Four Deities of Mount Kōya, 16th century


高野四所明神像, The Four Deities of Mount Kōya, Muromachi period (1392–1573), 16th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk, Image: 40 3/16 × 19 1/2 in. (102 × cm), Paintings, The four deities of Mount Kōya sit on elaborately decorated platforms before tripartite screens inside a Shinto shrine. Mount Kōya is the headquarters of the Shingon sect of Esoteric Buddhism, established in the ninth century by Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi, 774–835


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