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Pilgrim's Visiting Album

Pilgrim's Visiting Album. Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Album closed: 7 3/8 × 11 3/4 × 5/8 in. (18.7 × 29.8 × 1.6 cm) Album open: 44 1/8 × 11 3/4 in. (112.1 × 29.8 cm). Date: 18th century. An adherent of the Pure Land School of Buddhism compiled the content of these albums--slips of paper brushed with the name of the Buddha Amida (Sanskrit: Amitabha)--on temple visits. The signed and sealed slips indicate that most of the calligraphers were abbots of Pure Land temples in the greater Edo (Tokyo) area. The albums also have paintings of Amida, as well as Shandao, an influential Tang dynasty (618-907) monk; Honen, the founder of the Pure Land School in Japan; and a youthful Shinran, the founder of the True Pure Land School. A portrait of the monk Yuten Kenyo (1637-1718), who served as the thirty-sixth abbot of the Edo temple Zojoji, appears on the right-hand side of a page of one album. Yuten was born in the south of what is now Fukushima Prefecture, and entered Zojoji as a novice at the age of twelve. He struggled in the academic environment there and left, but later, a dream encounter with the deity Fudo Myoo (Sanskrit: Achala Vidyaraja) is said to have led to a personal transformation, following which he became famous for his ability to ensure birth in the Pure Land for those afflicted by tormented human spirits (onryo). One from a set (94.18.2-.5).
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Title:
Pilgrim's Visiting Album
Caption:
Pilgrim's Visiting Album. Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Album closed: 7 3/8 × 11 3/4 × 5/8 in. (18.7 × 29.8 × 1.6 cm) Album open: 44 1/8 × 11 3/4 in. (112.1 × 29.8 cm). Date: 18th century. An adherent of the Pure Land School of Buddhism compiled the content of these albums--slips of paper brushed with the name of the Buddha Amida (Sanskrit: Amitabha)--on temple visits. The signed and sealed slips indicate that most of the calligraphers were abbots of Pure Land temples in the greater Edo (Tokyo) area. The albums also have paintings of Amida, as well as Shandao, an influential Tang dynasty (618-907) monk; Honen, the founder of the Pure Land School in Japan; and a youthful Shinran, the founder of the True Pure Land School. A portrait of the monk Yuten Kenyo (1637-1718), who served as the thirty-sixth abbot of the Edo temple Zojoji, appears on the right-hand side of a page of one album. Yuten was born in the south of what is now Fukushima Prefecture, and entered Zojoji as a novice at the age of twelve. He struggled in the academic environment there and left, but later, a dream encounter with the deity Fudo Myoo (Sanskrit: Achala Vidyaraja) is said to have led to a personal transformation, following which he became famous for his ability to ensure birth in the Pure Land for those afflicted by tormented human spirits (onryo). One from a set (94.18.2-.5).
Technique/material:
One from a set of four albums; calligraphy on gilt paper and paper, paintings in ink, color, and gold on paper, mounted on paper, covers of silk embroidery with colored and metallic thread
Period:
Edo period (1615-1868)
Museum:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Credit:
Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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Image size:
3186 x 4200 px | 38.3 MB
Print size:
27.0 x 35.6 cm | 10.6 x 14.0 in (300 dpi)
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