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.)
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 21 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details



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,
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Signature
[at end of each scroll] Shinken