Illustrated Frontispiece to the Sutra of Enlightenment through the Accumulation of Merit and Virtue, the So-called Jingoji Sutra, 集一切福徳三昧経., late Heian period (ca. 900–1185), ca. 1150–85, Japan, Handscroll; gold and silver on indigo-dyed paper, 10 3/16 in. x 27 ft. 6 9/16 in. (25.8 x 839.7 cm), Paintings, This scroll bears a large rectangular Jingo-ji seal in red ink below the title, indicating that it once belonged to the set of more than five thousand sutra scrolls known as the Jingo-ji sutras. The retired emperor Toba (1103–1156) commissioned the transcription of these sutras about 1149
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Illustrated Frontispiece, Sutra, Enlightenment, Accumulation, Merit, Virtue, So-called Jingoji Sutra, 集一切福徳三昧経, late Heian period, ca, 900–1185, 1150–85, Japan, Handscroll, gold, silver, indigo-dyed paper, 10 3/16, x 27 ft, 6 9/16, 25.8 x 839.7 cm, Paintings, scroll, bears, large rectangular, Jingo-ji, seal, red ink, title, indicating, set, five thousand, sutra, scrolls, Jingo-ji sutras, retired emperor, Toba, 1103–1156, commissioned, transcription, sutras, 1149
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