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A Printed Sutra Scroll
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A Printed Sutra Scroll

MUROMACHI PERIOD (14TH CENTURY)

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A Printed Sutra Scroll
Muromachi Period (14th Century)
Scroll number 262 of a so-called Kasuga-ban woodblock-printed version of the Daihannyaharamittakyo sutra, the text set out in lines of seventeen characters each, old wormage and repairs, in fitted wood box
27ft 9in. x 10 7/16in. (848 x 26.5cm.)
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These woodblock printed editions of Buddhist scriptures, produced in Nara from the eleventh to the seventeenth century, are popularly referred to as Kasuga-ban from the name of the celebrated Shinto shrine located in that city.

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