Handscroll on paper, entitled on a new title-slip affixed to the outside, “Ryōkai mandara gahō...
19 brush & black ink fine drawings. With text on inside & outside of scroll (some corrections using white paint & black ink). Annotations partially in red ink. Some Siddham characters. Scroll (295 x 6465 mm.), outside of scroll at beginning covered with floral silk brocade, wooden core roller. [Japan]: second colophon dated “early September 1779.”
A scroll with instructions for drawing the Mandala of the Two Realms, which is associated with the Shingon school of esoteric Buddhism. The complicated mandala contains numerous deities arranged around a core. These deities are depicted in turn in a set of... More