納経帳断簡, Page of a Pilgrim’s Visiting Album, Edo period (1615–1868), late 18th–19th century, Japan, Album page; ink, color, and gold on paper, textile cover, 15 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (39.4 × 26.7 cm), Illustrated Books, These album pages are two from a group of three that must at one point have belonged to a larger number, likely owned by a resident of Edo (Tokyo). Each of the three has a cover with multiple textile pieces, some of which may have come from Kan’eiji, a Tendai School temple in the Ueno area of Edo, for they bear the Dharma names of either the fourth or the tenth Tokugawa shogun, both of whom had their graves at the temple
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