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The Secret Almanac of the Nine Luminaries

13th century
Medium/TechniqueHandscroll; ink on paper
Dimensions27.0 x 824.3 cm (10 5/8 x 324 1/2 in.) (height x width)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number11.6204
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ClassificationsPaintings
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Inscriptions貞應三年孟夏比以石山本書寫了本所持少異故書之 東寺沙門成賢 [奥書] 九曜秘暦 成賢 [旧題簽] 九曜秘暦 成賢儈正書并圖繪□此本既ニ考古畫譜ニ出
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.