Nitten 日天 (The Sun God)
Japan
1450
- Medium
- Hanging scroll, ink with original hand coloring
- Dimensions
- 33 7/8 × 14 1/16 in. (86.04 × 35.72 cm) (image) 67 1/4 × 19 3/4 in. (170.82 × 50.17 cm) (mount, without roller)
- Genre
Tags
Japan
About
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.
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