Catalogue information
Nara period, ca. 767
Sutra; ink printed on paper
5.8 x 46.4 cm (2 1/4 x 18 1/4 in.)
Pagoda; Japanese cypress (hinoki) and Cleyera ochnacea japonica (sakaki)
H. 22 cm (8 5/8 in.)
Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Kaufman 1985, fig. 6
; 1985
“Practice and Piety: Buddhist Art in Use.” Apollo 121, no. 276 (February): 91–99.
Murase 1993, no. 2
; 1993
Jewel Rivers: Japanese Art from the Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Art.
Murase 2000, no. 7.
2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 468 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.