Finely decorated woodblock-printed kasuga-ban scroll 春日版装飾経 of Vol. VI of the Lotus Sutra S. Saddharmapundarikasutra; J. Myohorengekyo 妙法蓮華経

by Lotus Sutra

$35,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

17 characters per column; 25 columns per sheet, 21.5 joined sheets. Scroll 275 x 10,740 mm. , outer front endpaper with nature motifs quite faded , inner endpaper with dense patterns of applied squares of silver. Columns of text vertically ruled in gold kinkai throughout, borders on top & bottom decorated with densely applied cut squares of gold & silver, wooden core roller. Japan: mid- to late Kamakura era ca. 1250-1333 .A luxuriously produced

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