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The Korean Deity, Hōshō Gongen, at the Site of the Ruined Temple (Jinoji)
The Korean Deity, Hōshō Gongen, at the Site of the Ruined Temple (Jinoji)

The Korean Deity, Hōshō Gongen, at the Site of the Ruined Temple (Jinoji)

Original Language Title神於寺縁起絵巻断簡(神於寺の荒廃に怒る宝勝権現)
Series TitleIllustrated Karmic Origin and Accounts of Jinoji
CultureJapanese
DateNanbokuchō period (1336-1392)
MediumHandscroll section mounted as hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
DimensionsOverall: 48 1/2 × 27 1/4 inches (123.19 × 69.22 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number60-14
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Provenance

Purchase –

With Mr. Joseph U. Seo, New York, by 1960;

Purchased from Mr. Joseph U. Seo by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1960.
Published References

Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna, and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. II, Art of the Orient. (Kansas City, MO: The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973) 102.

Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973) 273, pl.1.

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993) 356.

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008) 382, no.13.

Chinese Art Society, Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, xv, ( New York, NY : Chinese Art Society of America, 1961) 43, fig. 26.  B

Akiyama Terukayu, “Shin’oji engi emaki no fuku-gen to kōsatsu-Iwauyuru kōnin shōnin eden o megutte” in Zaigai nihon no shihō vol. 2 Emakimono (Tokyo: Mainichi shinbun-sha, 1980) 98-113,156, fig.89.
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