Many fine color paintings. Scroll (275 x 10,110 mm., including front endpaper), inside of front endpaper speckled in gilt, outside covered in silk brocade (small portion slightly damaged), gold-speckled manuscript title label, the scroll backed at an early date with shiny mica paper. [Japan, probably Nara]: mid- to late-Edo.

The Todaiji Temple, constructed in the eighth century, is one of the Seven Great Temples of Nara and became the headquarters of a network of provincial monasteries and convents in the Yamato region. Its collections of art and artifacts, held in the Shosoin (treasure house), contain many national treasures. The Imperial... More