• Figure 13. Scene in Shōtoku Taishi eden (“Pictorial Biography of Prince Shōtoku”) in handscroll format, sheet 4, right section. Early sixteenth century. At the age of six the prince meets priests and nuns from Baekje, who bring copies of Buddhist sutras with them. Courtesy of the British Museum.

"Pictorial Biography of Prince Shōtoku" (Shōtoku Taishi eden); detail

From The Three Treasures: A Revised and Illustrated Study and Translation of Minamoto no Tamenori's Sanboe by Edward Kamens and Ethan Bushelle

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