"Omizutori" Exhibition

Nara National Museum

This event has ended.

Omizutori (official name is Syunie) is an event held at Todaiji Nigatsudo, performing the repentance for an error to the Juichimen Kannon (Kannon with 11 faces). This has been carried on since the Heian period and this year's event will mark the 1257th.
This exhibition features paintings, scroll paintings, icons, writing references and crafts relating with Omizutori.
*Exhibiting at East New Wing

Lecture "About Syunie": March 2nd (Sun) 13:30-15:00

Talk "Omizutori Beyond a Crisis of subsistence": February 17th (Sun) 13:30-:15:30

*For more information please visit the URL below.

[Image: "Nigatsudo Honzon Kohai (detail)" (8th century) Todaiji, Nara]