Nitten 日天 (The Sun God), c. 1450
Unknown Japaneseexpand_more
Ink with original hand coloringexpand_more
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundationexpand_more 2015.79.210
Not on Viewexpand_more
Temple records date the printing of this work—part of a set of Juniten (Twelve Heavenly Guardians)—to the year Ōei 14 (1407), making it the earliest major documented work of artistic printing known in Japan.
Details
- Title
- Nitten 日天 (The Sun God)
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2015.79.210
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Murase, Art through a Lifetime, no. 474
- Curator Approved
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