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Grand Ritual for Miroku

Series TitleIllustrated Account of Jin'oji (Kōnoji)
Original Language Title神於寺縁起絵巻断簡 弥勒大会
CultureJapanese
Datemid-14th century
MediumHandscroll section mounted as hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
DimensionsImage: 12 5/8 x 25 3/8 inches (32.08 x 64.47 cm)
Mount: 4 feet 2 inches x 26 3/8 inches (127 x 67.01 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number60-15
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 222
Collections
Exhibition History

Japanese Art in America: Prehistory-A.D. 1900, Scripps College Art Gallery, CA, April 19 – May 15, 1960;

Journey of the Three Jewels: Japanese Buddhist Paintings from Western Collections, Asia House Gallery, NY, October 11 – December 9, 1979; Denver Art Museum, CO, March 27 –May 11, 1980.

Sages and Heroes: Storytelling in Asian Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 12, 2025–November 30, 2025, no cat.



Provenance

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

Purchased from Joseph U. Seo by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO,1 960.
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.

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) 357.

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) 383, no.14.

J. Leroy Davidson, Japanese Art in America: Prehistory-A.D. 1900, exh. cat. (Claremont, CA: Scripps College, 1960) pl. 8, no.29.

John Max Rosenfield, Journey of the Three Jewels: Japanese Buddhist Paintings from Western Collections (New York: Asia Society, 1979) 149, 150-151, no.44.

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.94.
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