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Lot 125
20.09.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 813587
Lot 125 | ANONYMOUS (12TH CENTURY)
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Mahaprajnaparamita, the Great Wisdom Sutra, from the Chusonji Temple (Chusonjikyo), Volume 86

Handscroll; gold and silver ink on indigo paper in decorated paper wrapper in gold and silver ink on indigo paper with title slip in gold; gilded metal roller ends, 19 sheets comprising frontispiece illustration and text

10 1/4 x 323 1/5 in. (26 x 821 cm.)

With a wood box with inscription describing about the sutra





Provenance

Chusonji Temple, Hiraizumi, Iwate Prefecture

Sorimachi Shigeo (Kobunso) (1901-1991), Tokyo

Private Museum, Japan
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