Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 142329

Amitābha Sūtra

Artist / 作者: 不明
Date / 年代: 1341
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Unknown / bm
Digital record / 画像記録: 750 × 480 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: British Museum
Published by / 公開者: 青木ソラ
Rights / 権利: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; commercial license required
Attribution / 表記: Copyright The Trustees of the British Museum

Catalog note / 解説

Illuminated manuscript of a Buddhist sūtra. Paradise scene, spread over two leaves, on the frontispiece to the Amitābha Sūtra. Śākyamuni flanked by Bodhisattvas and monks preaching to deities and other Buddhas, while two Bodhisattvas welcome souls to paradise. Painted and written in gold and silver on indigo-dyed paper by a monk-scribe for his mother. Inscribed.

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