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The Transformation of Mara's Arrows and The Temptation by Mara's Daughters, a section from the Sutra of Cause and Effect, Past and Present (Kako genzai e inga-kyô)


過去現在因果経絵断簡
Japanese
Kamakura period
late 13th century

Medium/Technique Section of a handscroll mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions Overall: 112 x 64.5 cm (44 1/8 x 25 3/8 in.)
Image: 27 x 48.1 cm (10 5/8 x 18 15/16 in.)
Lender accessory: 10.5 x 10.1 x 69.7 cm (4 1/8 x 4 x 27 7/16 in.)
Lender accessory: 7.2 x 7.5 x 67 cm (2 13/16 x 2 15/16 x 26 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Sylvan Barnet and William Charles Burto in honor of Anne Nishimura Morse and Samuel Crowell Morse
Accession Number2014.902
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné MFA Highlights: Arts of Japan (2008), p. 77
ProvenanceMatsunaga Jian (Matsunaga Yasuzemon, b. 1875 - d. 1971). July 11, 2006, sold by Kippei Art Gallery, Tokyo to Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, Cambridge, MA; 2014, gift of Sylvan Barnet and the estate of William Burto to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 25, 2014)