In Japanese First Line Issai Nyorai Shin Himitsu Zenshin Shari Hokyoin Darani S

by Sutra Kofukuji Printing

$125,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Scroll on paper, 24 lines per dharani, 17 characters per line, body of the woodblock text: 240 x 494 mm., consisting of two joined sheets r: 553 mm., l: 585 mm. in length , sutra text printed twice. Scroll 290 x 1138 mm. , with later endpaper 68 mm. at beginning total length: 1206 mm. , on a wooden roller some worming to text, faint staining at foot . Most certainly Kofukuji Temple, Nara: late Heian late 11th or early 12th century . An

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