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Lot 194

ATTRIBUTED TO TOKUGAWA IEYASU (1542-1616)
Namu Amida Butsu

26 October 2022, 10:00 EDT
New York

US$10,000 - US$15,000

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ATTRIBUTED TO TOKUGAWA IEYASU (1542-1616)

Namu Amida Butsu
A fragment of a handscroll in ink on paper mounted as a hanging scroll, signed and dated Rokugatsu yokka Ieyasu
14 x 9in (35 x 22cm)

Footnotes

According to the Nihon Shoseki Taikan, the monk Dōyo Shōnin of Daijūji urged Tokugawa Ieyasu to write the Namu Amida Butsu prayer daily around the year 1612, four years before Ieyasu's death. Nihon Shoseki Taikan 13 (1979), 7.

The practice of transcribing sutras expresses the devotees desire to build up positive karma. However, in the Pure Land Sect, one of the fundamental beliefs is that the simple declaration of the name of Amida Buddha is all that is needed to be reborn into the Western Paradise.

For an example of another section of this handscroll, see Stephen Addiss and C. Cameron Hurst, III, Samurai Painters, Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1983.

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