Important Cultural Property
Patterned Silk Ban, Fragment

Compound-weave silk
L 54.9-73.5, W 22.1-30.0
Kamakura period　13th century-14th century

Patterned Silk Ban, Fragment
  • H023527
Patterned Silk Ban, Fragment_0
  • H023527
  • 2013/12/16
Patterned Silk Ban, Fragment_1
  • H023528
  • 2013/12/16

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These are banners of silk brocade. At first, they do not look particularly Buddhist; on closer inspection, however, the pattern woven into the brocade itself features abstracted three-pronged vajra pestles and wish-fulfilling jewels. The banners have not survived to the present day in their entirety: originally, they had flaps hanging down from either side and from their bases. They come from Hyōzu Taisha Shrine in Shiga.
 
NAITO SakaeEnglish by Mary Lewine 
Buddhist Art Paradise: Jewels of the Nara National Museum. Nara National Museum, 2021.7, p.340, no.120-2. 

Accession Number 1186-19
Category Decorative Arts
Provenance Formerly kept in Hyōzutaisha-shrine, Shiga
Bibliography Buddhist Art Paradise: Jewels of the Nara National Museum. Nara National Museum, 2021.7, 354p. Illustrated Catalogue of the Collection of Nara National Museum: Supplement. Nara National Museum, 1999, 108p. (Japanese)

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