Catalogue information
Commonly known as Yakekyō (焼経)
Nara period, ca. 744
Fragment of a handscroll, mounted as hanging scroll; silver ink on indigo paper
24 x 55.6 cm (9 1/2 x 21 7/8 in.)
Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Ex Coll.: Nigatsudō, Tōdaiji, Nara
Literature
Kaufman 1985, fig. 9
; 1985
“Practice and Piety: Buddhist Art in Use.” Apollo 121, no. 276 (February): 91–99.
Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 67
; 1985a
Nihon bijutsu meihin ten: New York Burke Collection / A Selection of Japanese Art from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Tokyo: Chunichi Shimbun.
Avitabile 1990, no. 14
; 1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
Murase 2000, no. 6.
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 508 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.