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A painted image of Nyoirin Kannon Bodhisattva (如意輪観音菩薩) dating to the Kamakura period (1185-1333) at Hōzanji Temple (宝山寺) in Ikoma, Nara Prefecture
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A painted image of Nyoirin Kannon Bodhisattva (如意輪観音菩薩) dating to the Kamakura period (1185-1333) at Hōzanji Temple (宝山寺) in Ikoma, Nara Prefecture
Image from the city's digital museum
Stamped images of buddhas dating to the Heian period (794-1185) from Jōruriji Temple (浄瑠璃寺) in Kizugawa, Kyoto Prefecture
A painted image of the goddess Benzaiten (弁才天) along with guards and attendants gracing the back of the double-doored miniature shrine containing the sculpted image of the goddess Kichijōten (吉祥天) at Jōruriji Temple (浄瑠璃寺) in Kizugawa, Kyoto Prefecture (a 1976 copy at the temple of the 1212 original currently in the collection of Tokyo University of the Arts)
Photo by Bijutsushitan on November 29, 2022
A sculpted image of Aizen Myōō (愛染明王) crafted in 1247 by the Buddhist artist Zen’en (善円) and enshrined within the Aizendō Hall (愛染堂) of Saidaiji Temple (西大寺) in Nara, viewable by the general public only once a year for a few weeks in autumn
Image from a site announcing the 2019 public viewing of this image along with other upcoming temple events
Passing around a massive cup of tea at the biannual Ōcha Morishiki Rite (大茶盛式) at Saidaiji Temple (西大寺) in Nara, an event tracing its origins to an offering of tea by the Shingon Ritsu founder and temple restorer Eison (叡尊) in 1281 to the deity Hachiman (八幡神) in thanks for repelling the recent Mongolian invasion
Image from the temple’s official website
A copy of the Yoshino Mandara (吉野曼荼羅), a mandala depicting key deities of the sacred mountainous terrain of Yoshino (in present-day Nara Prefecture), with the wrathful Zaō Gongen (蔵王権現) prominent in the center revealing himself to the pioneering mountain ascetic En no Gyōja (役行者) at his feet to the right, the crimson healing deity Gozu Tennō (牛頭天王) and the local deity of the land Konshō Myōjin (金精明神) above, the armed guardian deity Hachiōji (八王子神) across from En no Gyōja, the armored Katsute Myōjin (勝手明神) and his wife the child protector Komori Myōjin (子守明神) at the lower middle, and the local Sanagi Myōjin (左抛明神) and the scholarly deity Tenman Daiseiitoku Tenjin (天満大政威徳天神) a.k.a. Tenjin (天神) below, while in the upper landscape register can be seen the Eight Great Boy deities (八大童子) standing watch over the greater Ōmine mountain range
Color on silk dating to the Kamakura period (1185-1333) from the collection of Saidaiji Temple (西大寺) in Nara
A close-up detail of the structure of the three-storied pagoda (dating to 1442) at Gansenji Temple (岩船寺) in Kizugawa, Kyoto Prefecture, with a wooden grotesque visible in the rafters
Photo by 663highland on November 10, 2012
A Japanese-language pamphlet from Jōruriji Temple (浄瑠璃寺) in Kizugawa, Kyoto Prefecture, featuring the temple’s three-storied pagoda dating to 1178
Acquired at the temple April 16, 1995