This work is a copy of a picture scroll depicting the founding and subsequent history of the Ishiyamadera Temple, in Shiga prefecture, and the miracles performed by its main focus of devotion, Nyoirin Kannon (Cintamani-cakra). In this scene, as a result of the wife of a nobleman’s having visited that temple, where she engaged in continuing prayers to Kannon, Kannon appears in a dream and holds out the Cintamani wish-fulfilling jewel to her. To protect the sleeping woman from others’ eyes, the folding screen is folded irregularly around her.
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