print
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.141
- Description
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Hand-coloured woodblock print. At the top, Amida's Paradise in the West, and below, Hell scene with King Enma.
- Production date
- 18thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 129 centimetres
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Width: 49.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- This large popular hand-coloured woodblock print combines scenes of the Western Paradise of Amida (top), the descent of Amida and his retinue to rescue the dying (centre) and various levels of hell (bottom). A stamp in the margin says it was issued by a temple called Gensho-ji at Higashi-Takatsu, Osaka.
(Label copy, TTC 1998)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2000 30 Jun-24 Sep, London, BM, Japanese Galleries, 'Japan Time'
- Acquisition date
- 1881
- Acquisition notes
- The collection of over 2,000 Japanese and Chinese paintings assembled by Prof. William Anderson during his residency in Japan, 1873-1880, was acquired by the Museum in 1881. The items were not listed in the register, but rather were published separately as the 'Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of a Collection of Japanese and Chinese Paintings in the British Museum' (Longmans & Co, 1886).
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1881,1210,0.141
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.3507 (Japanese Painting Number)