Legends of the Sakuranomiya Shrine (Sakuranomiya Engi) (Translation)
樱宫の緣起 江戸時代 和光院心澄書 紙本着色 (Primary Title)
Sakuranomija engi (Transliterated Title)

Wakoin Shincho (Calligrapher)
Wakoin Shintoh (calligraphy) (Former Attribution)
Attributed to, Prince Kenren, Japanese (Painter)

1688
Japanese
Handscroll; ink and color on paper
Unframed: 12 1/2 × 91 in. (31.75 × 231.14 cm)
68.50
Not on view
Shingon Buddhism (真言宗, Shingon-shū)
Edo period (1615-1868)
和光院心澄 Wakoin Shincho
None
樱宫天照大神 勸進文 (Sakuranomiya Shrine's fundraising prose on the Sun Goddess, Tenshō-daijin), signed and dated: 元禄元戊辰年仲冬日 [1688], 樱宫別當, 和光院心澄敬白 (Respectfully written by Shincho from Wakoin Temple, priest of Samuranomiya Shrine)
Special Oriental Art Purchase Fund
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