Miracles performed by the bodhisattva Jizo (copy of a section of a handscroll)
1627
- Medium
- Ink and color
- Dimensions
- 125 × 13.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-124692
This early narrative handscroll (emakimono) depicts miraculous stories of the compassionate bodhisattva Jizo (Kshitigarbha), a Buddhist deity worshipped as a savior of those condemned to hell. With the scroll, Freer acquired a final copy of the section, done in 1627 by Kano Tan'yu. The copy shows text that was later lost from the original scroll. Freer’s acquisition of such copies and preliminary…
Provenance
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Registry history
- 1627 — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art
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