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Gold and silver frontispiece on indigo paper depicts the Dragon King's daughter rising from an underwater palace to offer a jewel to the Buddha and seated attendants. Katsukawa Shunshō: Murasaki Shikibu Five-story square pagoda at Daigo Temple in Kyoto, Japan, with ornate wooden eaves and a tall spire, surrounded by trees and a person standing at the base. Heian-period guardian deity mask Phoenix Hall of Byōdōin Temple Jōchō: Amida Myorai Painting by Takanobu showing Yoritomo seated in formal black robes with a tall headpiece, against a muted background with Japanese script above. Kobayashi Kiyochika: Minamoto Yoshitsune Leaping from Boat to Boat Kusakabe Kimbei: Samurai in Armour
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The Dragon King's daughter offers a jewel to the Buddha
Frontispiece from the “Devadatta” chapter of the Lotus Sutra, depicting the eight-year-old...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Seymour Fund, 1965 (65.216.1), www.metmuseum.org
Katsukawa Shunshō: Murasaki Shikibu
Murasaki Shikibu was a Heian-period court lady and the author of The Tale of...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, (The Joan Elizabeth Tanney Bequest; M.2006.136.313), www.lacma.org
Daigo Temple pagoda
Five-story pagoda of Daigo Temple, Kyōto, Japan, completed in 951 during the Heian...
Manley Features/Shostal Associates
Heian-period guardian deity mask
Processional mask of a guardian deity, wood, lacquer, and polychrome, Japan, 1086,...
Photograph by global-hawaii. Honolulu Academy of Arts, gift of Mr. Arnold Grant, 1961 (2998.1)
Phoenix Hall of Byōdōin Temple
Built at Uji in 1053 by Fujiwara Yorimichi, the Phoenix Hall was designed to evoke...
David Monniaux
Jōchō: Amida Myorai
Amida Myorai, wood covered with gold leaf on a polychrome wood lotus pedestal, by...
Sakamoto Photo Laboratory, Tokyo
Minamoto Yoritomo
Minamoto Yoritomo established a military government at Kamakura following the Minamoto...
© Universal History Archive—Universal Images Group/Getty Images
Kobayashi Kiyochika: Minamoto Yoshitsune Leaping from Boat to Boat
Minamoto Yoshitsune was a leading Minamoto commander during the Gempei War (1180–85),...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Barbara Bowman (AC1996.84.1), www.lacma.org
Kusakabe Kimbei: Samurai in Armour
The samurai emerged as a distinct warrior class during the Heian period and went...
J. Paul Getty Museum (object no. 84.XA.700.4.58), digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program
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