The Burke Collection
Iconographic Drawings (図像抄)
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21-1
21-2

Artist

Shinken

(深賢; fl. 13th century)

Catalogue information

Kamakura period, fifth month of 1230

Two handscrolls; ink on paper

Scroll I (detail, at right): Eleven fierce deities 25.3 x 1287 cm (10 in. x 42 ft. 2 3/4 in.)
Scroll II (detail, below): Seven Kannon 25.1 x 1193.4 cm (9 7/8 in. x 39 ft. 1 7/8 in.)

Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

See also

This artwork was published as catalogue entry 21 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.

Additional details

D21-2
scroll ii
D21-2
D21-1

Text

[at end of scroll i] Copying of the iconographic drawings completed on the twenty-second day of the fourth month. Shinken completed copying at Jizōin, Daigoji, on the twentieth day of the fourth month of 1230.

[at end of scroll ii] Completed checking against the Tsūchiin version, in the fifth month of 1230, at Jizōin of Saienji. However,… [illegible]

Signature

[at end of each scroll] Shinken