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Illustrated Frontispiece to the Sutra of Enlightenment through the Accumulation of Merit and Virtue, the So-called Jingoji Sutra
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Handscroll; gold and silver on indigo-dyed paper, late Heian period (ca. 900–1185), Japan
Rights: Public Domain
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: Illustrated Frontispiece to the Sutra of Enlightenment through the Accumulation of Merit and Virtue, the So-called Jingoji Sutra
Description:
Handscroll; gold and silver on indigo-dyed paper, late Heian period (ca.
900–1185), Japan.
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