Chapter 78 of the Greater Sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom, 12th century, Unknown Japanese, 10 3/16 × 341 1/2 in. ( × cm) (without roller)10 3/16 × 8 3/4 in. ( × cm) (image, frontispiece alone), Gold and silver on indigo-dyed paper, Japan, 12th century, This handscroll is a copy of a single chapter of the Greater Sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom, or Daihan’nya haramittakyō, a sacred Buddhist scripture that is the opening text of the Buddhist canon, commonly known as the Tripitaka. To create this version, a calligrapher brushed the text by hand in silver paint

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