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Section from the Flower Garland Sutra (Kegon-kyô), known as the Nigatsudô yake-kyô
Section from the Flower Garland Sutra (Kegon-kyô), known as the Nigatsudô yake-kyô

Section from the Flower Garland Sutra (Kegon-kyô), known as the Nigatsudô yake-kyô

Artist unidentified, Japanese
Sugimoto Hiroshi (Japanese, born in 1948)
744–752
Medium/TechniqueSection of a handscroll mounted as a hanging scroll; silver on indigo-dyed paper
DimensionsImage: 86 × 110 cm (33 7/8 × 43 5/16 in.)
Overall (including jiku and hanging braid): 99.1 × 119.4 cm (39 × 47 in.)
Credit LineGift of Sylvan Barnet and William Burto in honor of Malcolm Rogers
Accession number2014.905
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCalligraphy
Collections
Provenance2011, sold by Sugimoto Hiroshi, Tokyo and New York, to Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, Cambridge, MA; 2014, gift of Sylvan Barnet and the estate of William Burto to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 25, 2014)
CopyrightReproduced with permission.
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