真言諸尊図像抄|Scroll from the Compendium of Iconographic Drawings (Zuzōshō)

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late 12th century · Handscroll; ink and color on paper · Asian Art

This scroll is from a transcription of the Zuzōshō, a ten-scroll encyclopedia of Esoteric Buddhist iconography, or imagery, first compiled in the 1130s. The section displayed describes the wrathful Aizen Myōō, one of the Esoteric Buddhist deities known as Wisdom Kings, in text and image.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 12th century

Medium

Handscroll; ink and color on paper

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975