Aizen Myō-ō
Color on silk · Kamakura period · 14th century · Hozan-ji (Nara)
A crimson, sunlike wrathful love — on display only in the later term, roughly four centuries older than the temple that now houses it.
Exhibition: Celebrating 1250 Years Since the Birth of the Great Master Kūkai: Kūkai and the Treasures of Shingon Buddhism — Tokyo National Museum · –