photographic print; hanging scroll; reproduction; storage box

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Object Type: photographic print; hanging scroll; reproduction; storage box
Museum number: OA+,0.511
Description: Photograph, hanging scroll. Collotype black & white reproduction of a 7th-century wall-painting in distemper in the Kondo (Golden Hall) of Horyuji temple (severely damaged by fire in 1949). Wall no. 6 Pure Land of Amida. With wooden storage box. One of a set of twelve; of twenty sets produced.
Producer name
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1936; 7thC (original)
Production place: Printed in: Kyoto-shi
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 312 centimetres; Width: 260 centimetres
Location: Not on display
Subjects: buddha; bodhisattva
Associated names: Representation of: Amitābha/阿彌陀佛/Amida; Representation of: Avalokiteśvara/Guanyin/Kannon; Representation of: Mahāsthāmaprāpta
Associated places: Associated with: Horyuji
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1937
Department: Asia
Registration number: OA+,0.511

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