The Burke Collection
Life of Kōbō Daishi (弘法大師行状図画)
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477-1

Catalogue information

Edo period, 17th century

Ten handscrolls; ink printed with hand-applied color on paper

scroll i (detail, below) 29.2 x 794.2 cm (11 1/2 in. x 26 ft. 5/8 in.)
scroll ii: 29.2 x 728.3 cm (11 1/2 in. x 23 ft. 10 3/4 in.)
scroll iii: 29.2 x 842.9 cm (11 1/2 in. x 27 ft. 7 7/8 in.)
scroll iv: 29.3 x 507 cm (11 1/2 in. x 16 ft. 7 5/8 in.)
scroll v: 29.1 x 588.2 cm (11 1/2 in. x 19 ft. 3 5/8 in.)
scroll vi: 29.2 x 480 cm (11 1/2 in. x 15 ft. 9 in.)
scroll vii: 29.1 x 701.7 cm (11 1/2 in. x 23 ft. 1/4 in.)
scroll viii: 29 x 575.2 cm (11 3/8 in. x 18 ft. 10 1/2 in.)
scroll ix: 29 x 574 cm (11 3/8 in. x 18 ft. 10 in.)
scroll x: 29 x 726.8 cm (11 3/8 in. x 23 ft. 10 1/8 in.)

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