Memyo Bosatsu, 馬鳴菩薩像, Heian period (794–1185), 12th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, Overall: 46 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. (117.5 x 41.9 cm), Paintings, This iconographic drawing represents Memyo Bosatsu, a deity of sericulture who provides the poor with clothes. The bodhisattva is thought to have originally been a deity indigenous to Chinese popular cults that was incorporated into Esoteric Buddhist iconography
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Memyo Bosatsu, 馬鳴菩薩像, Heian period, 794–1185, 12th century, Japan, Hanging scroll, ink, color, paper, Overall, 46 1/4 x 16 1/2, 117.5 41.9 cm, Paintings, iconographic, drawing, represents, Memyo, Bosatsu, deity, sericulture, provides, poor, clothes, bodhisattva, thought, originally, deity indigenous, Chinese popular, cults, incorporated, Esoteric Buddhist, iconography
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