KAB Event - Treasures From Shogoin— The Temple of Imperial Monks and Mountain Ascetics

Treasures From Shogoin— The Temple of Imperial Monks and Mountain Ascetics

The Museum of Kyoto

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The elegant Shogoin Temple in Rakuto, Kyoto boasts a long history of members of the nobility and imperial family serving as its priests. Its lecture room and halls, which became a provisional imperial palace, are decorated with gorgeously colored screen door paintings by Kano school artists. Shogoin is also the main temple of Honzan Shugendo, a sect of ascetic mountain Buddhism, and possesses a great number of writings and materials on nature-based religious training revering mountains as deities. A memorial service observing the 900th anniversary of the death Head Monk Zoyo, founder of Shogoin Temple, was observed in the autumn of 2014. In collaboration with the Ryukoku Museum, the Museum of Kyoto marks this occasion with treasures from Shogoin.

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• Calligraphy
• Other
• Crafts

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