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Iconographic Drawings of the Five Kings of Wisdom (Myōō-bu shoson)
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Handscroll; ink and color on paper, Heian period (794–1185), Japan
Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art Gift of Harry G. C. Packard and Purchase Fletcher Rogers Harris Brisbane Dick and Louis V. Bell Funds Joseph Pulitzer Bequest and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift 1975
Title: Iconographic Drawings of the Five Kings of Wisdom (Myōō-bu shoson)
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Handscroll; ink and color on paper, Heian period (794–1185), Japan.
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