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Illustrated Handscroll of Kitano Tenjin Engi (Legends of Kitano Tenjin Shrine)

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  • Muromachi period, 16th century
  • color on paper
  • set of six handscrolls

Paintings – Japanese / Asian Paintings

Many pictorial scrolls were made deriving from the Kitano Tenmangu worshiping Sugawara no Michizane along with the expansion of Michizane worshiping in the middle ages. This work is grouped as one of the Koanbon, created in the first year of the Koan period, by the opening paragraph, and is superior among the group showing traditional style in its soft lines and colors.(「New Edition Grace, Beauty and Inqenuity-Masterpices of the Museum of Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan Vol.1」2003)

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Title/Name Illustrated Handscroll of Kitano Tenjin Engi (Legends of Kitano Tenjin Shrine)
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Name
Artist/
Creator
Period/Era Muromachi period
Century 16c.
Quantity set of six handscrolls
Dimensions
Material/
Technique
color on paper
Signature/
Inscriptions
Accessories/
Contents
Country/
Origin
Excavation
Site
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Place
Kyoto Fukuoka
Provenance
Collection
No.
SZK002955
Category PaintingsJapanese / Asian Paintings
Cultural
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Illustrated Handscroll of Kitano Tenjin Engi (Legends of Kitano Tenjin Shrine)

Illustrated Handscroll of Kitano Tenjin Engi (Legends of Kitano Tenjin Shrine)

Many pictorial scrolls were made deriving from the Kitano Tenmangu worshiping Sugawara no Michizane along with the expansion of Michizane worshiping in the middle ages. This work is grouped as one of the Koanbon, created in the first year of the Koan period, by the opening paragraph, and is superior among the group showing traditional style in its soft lines and colors.(「New Edition Grace, Beauty and Inqenuity-Masterpices of the Museum of Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan Vol.1」2003)