The Pictorial Biography of Prince Shōtoku
Original Language Title聖徳太子絵伝
CultureJapanese
Dateca. 1300
MediumHanging scroll (one of a set of six), ink and color on silk
DimensionsMount: 84 3/4 × 24 inches (215.27 × 60.96 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number47-72/6
On View
Not on viewCollections
ProvenanceWith Michelangelo Piacentini (d. 2005), Tokyo, by 1947 [1];
Purchased from Piacentini by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1947.
NOTES:
[1] Piacentini was an Italian art historian based in Tokyo after the Second World War. He studied Italian Renaissance art, while collecting and dealing in Asian objects.
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