Conservation of a wall painting tracing from the Kondo of Horyuji temple, Nara
This is a full-size tracing of wall no. 9, the Pure Land of Miroku, in the Kondo of Horyuji temple, Nara, painted in the late 7th century. In December 1879, the British diplomat Ernest Satow (1843-1929) visited Horyuji together with William Anderson and saw the Kondo wall-paintings. Realizing their importance, he commissioned the painter Sakurai Koun to produce a copy of wall no. 9, and this project began in May 1880. A duplicate copy was given to the head of the Museum Bureau, Machida Hisanari (1838-97), to encourage him to commission a full set of copies. Satow sent his copy of wall no. 9 to Anderson, who had returned to England in early 1880. Having formed part of the Anderson Collection at the British Museum since 1881, the drawing was rediscovered by Princess Akiko of Mikasa in 2007, during the research for her doctoral thesis.
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I’ve been to Nara Japan. I loved feeding the deer there and I got to visit some really cool temples like Todai-Ji. The Buddha statue there is massive. Almost as big as the Daibutsu in Kamakura.
It is fortunate that a record was made of this culturally important image that was so tragically lost. I am immensely proud that our British Museum could facilitate the saving for future generations a representation of the original work. I am unsure however if the Museum holds copies of the other lost works from this set.
Very interesting and rewarding work, well done and thank you!
Beautiful
The faded, degraded outlines of the ancient painting is in keeping with the perspective on transience that underlies Buddhist teaching.
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Oh nice, i live not too far from Horyuji and was planning to go there to see the Momiji (red maples) soon because the location is beautiful. Seeing a little part of its history gives a lot more meaning to my outing.
All I can say is, "Wow"! Really great work. It would be interesting to use computer colorization to create a simulation of the original colors in order to see the true splendor of the original.
Thank you for sharing the wonderful video.
Interesting
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