神於寺縁起絵巻断簡|Scene from The Illustrated Legends of Jin’ōji Temple
Unknown Artist
early 14th century
Medium
Fragment of a handscroll mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Image: 13 1/2 × 21 15/16 in. (34.3 × 55.7 cm) Overall with mounting: 49 7/16 × 26 15/16 in. (125.5 × 68.5 cm) Overall with knobs: 49 7/16 × 29 1/16 in. (125.5 × 73.8 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
Japan · Kamakura period (1185–1333)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015
Accession Number
2015.300.8
Tags
Art Historical Context
This captivating fragment, titled *Scene The Illustrated Legends of Jin’ōji Temple hails from early 14th-century Japan during the Kamakura period (5–1333). part of a larger handscroll (emaki), a popular format for storytelling in medieval Japan, it has been remounted as a hanging scroll. These *engi* scrolls illustrated temple founding legends, blending pious narratives with vivid imagery to attract pilgrims and patrons to sites like Jin’ōji, promoting its spiritual prestige amid the era's turbulent samurai culture and Zen Buddhist influences. Crafted in ink and color on paper—a hallmark of J...