Legends of the Sakura Shrine (Sakuramiya Engi) (Primary Title)
樱宫緣起絵巻 和光院心澄書 江戸時代 紙本着色 (Translation)

Wakoin Shincho, Japanese (Calligrapher)
Prince Kenren, Japanese (Former Attribution)
Wakoin Shintoh (Former Attribution)

1688
Japanese
handscoll; ink and color on paper
Unframed: 12 1/2 × 91 in. (31.75 × 231.14 cm)
68.50
Not on view
Edo period (1615-1868)
和光院心澄 Wakoin Shincho
none
At the beginning of the scroll: 樱宫天照大神 勸進文 (Prose on the Goddress of the Sun, Tenshō-daijin of the Sakura Shrine); at the end of the scroll: 元禄元戊成年仲冬日 [1688] 樱宫判留/和光院心澄 敬白
Special Oriental Art Purchase Fund
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