長命寺参詣曼荼羅図屏風, Chōmeiji Temple Pilgrimage Mandala (Chōmeiji sankei mandara zu byōbu), Muromachi period (1392–1573), second quarter of the 16th century, Japan, Hanging scroll remounted as a two-panel folding screen; ink, color, gofun (ground shell pigment), and gold on paper, Image: 58 3/8 × 63 3/8 in. (148.3 × 161 cm), Screens, This painting captures the activities of a spring day at Chōmeiji Temple, situated on a hill overlooking Lake Biwa, just east of Kyoto. A wealth of genre detail relates the activities of temple monks and of the visitors of all walks of life who visited the temple to make offerings to the central object of worship—an eleven-headed Kannon, the bodhisattva of compassion
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長命寺参詣曼荼羅図屏風, Chōmeiji Temple Pilgrimage Mandala, sankei mandara zu ōbu, Muromachi period, 1392–1573, second quarter, 16th century, Japan, Hanging scroll remounted, two-panel folding screen, ink, color, gofun, ground shell pigment, gold, paper, Image, 58 3/8, 63, 148.3, 161 cm, Screens, painting, captures, activities, spring day, Temple, situated, hill overlooking, Lake, Biwa, east, Kyoto, wealth, genre detail, relates, temple monks, visitors, walks, life, visited, temple, offerings, central object, worship— eleven-headed, Kannon, bodhisattva, compassion
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