Ch?meiji Temple Pilgrimage Mandala second quarter 16th century Japan This painting captures the activities of a spring day at Ch?meiji Temple, situated on a hill overlooking Lake Biwa, just east of Kyoto. A wealth of details relates the activities of the temple monks and visitors, who visited the temple to make offerings to the central object of worship, an eleven-headed Kannon, the bodhisattva of compassion. Pilgrimage mandalas (sankei mandara) like this one relate the miraculous stories and seasonal activities of famous temples or shrines. Itinerant preachers used them in a form of storytell
Ch?meiji Temple Pilgrimage Mandala second quarter 16th century Japan This painting captures the activities of a spring day at Ch?meiji Temple, situated on a hill overlooking Lake Biwa, just east of Kyoto. A wealth of details relates the activities of the temple monks and visitors, who visited the temple to make offerings to the central object of worship, an eleven-headed Kannon, the bodhisattva of compassion. Pilgrimage mandalas (sankei mandara) like this one relate the miraculous stories and seasonal activities of famous temples or shrines. Itinerant preachers used them in a form of storytelling known as etoki, or “picture-narration.” This example was no doubt employed to help raise funds for the rebuilding of the Ch?meiji Temple complex after it was razed by fire in Ch?meiji Temple Pilgrimage Mandala. Japan. second quarter 16th century. Hanging scroll remounted as a two-panel folding screen; ink, color, gofun (ground shell pigment), and gold on paper. Muromachi period (1392–1573). Screens
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