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Colorful Realm of Living Beings
High-resolution facsimile
- Material
- printed on silk
- Period of creation
- The Joint-research Project with CPCP 2024–2025
- depository
- Museum of the Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan
Original
- Cultural property designation
- National Treasure
- Artist
- Ito Jakuchu
- Historical era
- Edo (18th Century)
- Material
- Color on silk
- Medium
- Thirty hanging scrolls
- Housed
- Museum of the Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan
Description
This is a monumental thirty-scroll sequence by master painter Ito Jakuchu (1716–1800), which he completed over a period of ten years. Their remarkably detailed brushwork and bold composition set these works apart from those of any other painter. In 1765, Jakuchu himself donated the scrolls to Shokokuji Temple in Kyoto, where they were displayed during Buddhist rituals alongside the Sakyamuni Triptych, another of his prominent works. The temple presented the set of scrolls to the Imperial Household in 1888, and in 2021 it was designated a National Treasure.
