The 78th Annual Exhibition of Shōsō-in Treasures: a free twelve-work guide
The Nara National Museum’s annual autumn exhibition, October 24 to November 9: twelve of the sixty treasures on display, with free text and audio in Japanese, English, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
The 78th Annual Exhibition of Shōsō-in Treasures — Nara National Museum · –
Works
- 7. Persian-style lacquered ewer
- 60. White glass ewer
- 17. Square mirror with birds, beasts, and flowers
- 59. Hunting-pattern silks and other fragments on a screen
- 26. Gigaku mask: Suikoō, the drunken Hu king
- 9. Red- and blue-stained ivory go stones with bachiru decoration (nos. 9 and 10)
- 14. Go board of mulberry with marquetry
- 18. Brahma’s Net Sutra (Bonmō-kyō)
- 29. Offering box with mitsuda-e oil painting
- 33. Gilt-copper Buddhist banner
- 50. Rush mat
- 42. Kōryū, the “rainbow dragon”