2016/4/7

Prayers to Water
April 9th to May 29th, 2016
RYUKOKU MUSEUM

List of Works
Notes
◉=National Treasure, ◎=Important Cultural Property, ○=Important Art Object
・The list numbers corespond to the exhibition labels.
・Not all the works of this list will be exhibited at the same time because of the exhibition

Exhibition Term
NO. Title Artist Date Location and owner First Second
(April 9th to May 8th） (May 10th to 29th)

Section 1: The Power of Water

Yayoi period, 1st
Excavated from the Yao City Museum of
1 Dôtaku Bell with Flowing Water Design century BC to 1st ● ●
Atobe site History and Folklore
century
Muromachi period,
2 ◎ Landscape with Sun and Moon Kongô-ji, Osaka April 9th-27th
15th-16th century
Gandhara, 2nd - Ryukoku Museum,
3 First Bath ● ●
3rd century Ryukoku University
Kamakura period,
4 Water Pitcher Shigi type Kyoto National Museum ● ●
13th century
Kamakura period,
5 Water Pitcher Fusatsu (Poṣadha) type Tokyo National Museum ● ●
13th century
Kamakura period,
6 Sacred Water Ladles MIHO MUSEUM ● ●
dated 1247
Kamakura period,
7 Nyô Ritual Handbell Tokyo National Museum ● ●
dated 1285
Illustration of Ômandokoro(resting place for a Muromachi period,
8 ●
portable shrine) in Gion Festival 16th century
Muromachi period,
9 Taga Shrine Pilgrimage Mandala Suntory Museum of Art ●
16th century
Nambokucho
Illustrated Biography of Priest-Poet Saigyô,
10 period, 14th Suntory Museum of Art ●
scroll 2
century
The Museum of the
Illustrated Biography of Priest-Poet Saigyô, Edo period, 18th
11 Ogata Kôrin Imperial Collections, only in Suntory Musuem of Art
scroll 2 century
Sannomaru Shôzôkan
Edo period, dated
12 Illustrated Legends of Dôjô-ji Suntory Museum of Art ● ●
1692
Illustrated Tale of Monk Kengaku in Miidera and Muromachi period,
13 Nezu Museum ●
A Laymen’s Daughter, scroll 2 16th century
Muromachi period, April 28th-May
14 Illustrated Legends of Onsen-ji Kyoto National Museum ●
15th century 8th
Meiji period, dated April 28th-May
15 Illustrated Legends of Kankô-ji (Copy) Maeda Tsuranari Tokyo National Museum ●
1886 8th
Muromachi period,
16 Illustrated Biography of Priest Nichiren, scroll 2 Kubota Muneyasu Honkoku-ji, Kyoto only in Suntory Musuem of Art
dated 1536
Standing Eleven-Headed Kannon Kamakura period,
17 Chôkai Paramita Museum only in Suntory Musuem of Art
(Ekadaśamukha Avalokiteśvara) 13th century
Nambokucho
Standing Eleven-Headed Kannon
18 period, 14th Hase-dera, Nara ● ●
(Ekadaśamukha Avalokiteśvara) with Attendants
century
Eleven-Headed Kannon (Ekadaśamukha Muromachi period,
19 Century Museum ●
Avalokiteśvara) 15th-16th century
Eleven-Headed Kannon (Ekadaśamukha Muromachi period,
20 Hôryû-ji, Nara ●
Avalokiteśvara) 16th century
Eleven-Headed Kannon (Ekadaśamukha Kamakura period,
21 ●
Avalokiteśvara) 14th century
Nambokucho
22 Illustrated Legends of Hase-dera period, 14th Tokugawa Art Museum May 17th-29th
century
Muromachi period, Kamakura Hase-dera,
23 Illustrated Legends of Hase-dera, scroll 1, 2 ● May 10th-15th
dated 1557 Kanagawa

Section 2: Water-related Shintô and Buddhist Deities

Kamakura-
24 Standing Benzaiten (Sarasvatī) Nambokucho period, Seto Shrine, Kanagawa ● ●
14th century

Kamakura period,
25 Seated Benzaiten (Sarasvatī) only in Suntory Musuem of Art
13th century
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Muromachi period,
Benzaiten (Sarasvatī) and Fifteen Child
26 14th - 15th Shôgo-in, Kyoto ●
Attendants
century
Muromachi period,
27 Benzaiten (Sarasvatī) Mandala Suntory Museum of Art ●
dated 1406
Shoson Zuzôshū (Collection of the Kamakura period,
28 ◎ Shômyô-ji, Kanagawa ●
Iconography of Various Deities) 13th - 14th century
Edo period, 17th- April 9th-May
29 Uga-jin Honzann-ji, Osaka
18th century 5th
Edo period, 18th-
30 Uga-jin Mokujiki Byakudô Shingen-in, Tokyo ● ●
19th century
Kamakura-
Nambokucho
31 Seated Benzaiten (Sarasvatī) MIHO MUSEUM ● ●
period, 14th
century
Illustrated Legends of Enoshima, scroll 2, Edo period, 17th Enoshima Shrine,
32 only in Suntory Musuem of Art
3, 4 century Kanagawa
Nambokucho
33 Chikubushima Benzaiten period, 14th ●
century
Edo period, 17th The Museum
34 Chikubushima Festival ●
century YamatoBunkakan
Benzaiten (Sarasvatī) Section of the
Kamakura period,
35 ◎ Besson Zakki (Collection of the Shômyô-ji, Kanagawa ●
14th century
Iconography of Various Deities)
Muromachi period,
36 Tenkawa Benzaiten (Sarasvatī) Mandala Ishiyama-dera, Shiga ●
15th century
Muromachi period,
Benzaiten (Sarasvatī) and Fifteen Child
37 14th - 15th Nezu Museum only in Suntory Musuem of Art
Attendants
century
Benzaiten (Sarasvatī) and Fifteen Child Muromachi period, Taima-dera Nakano-bô,
38 ●
Attendants 16th century Nara
Kamakura period, Niutsuhime Shrine,
39 ◎ Biwa Lute ● ●
13th - 14th century Wakayama
Kamakura period,
40 Four Guardians of Mt. Kôya Shôchi-in, Wakayama ●
13th century
Muromachi period,
41 Four Guardians of Mt. Kôya ●
15th century
Kamakura period,
42 Seated Female Deities ●
13th century
Mathura, 2nd
43 Goddess of the Ganges (Gaṅgā ) Sekido Museum of Art ● ●
century
China Tang dynasty
Mirror with Incised Image of Nyoirin or Japan Heian
44 ◎ period, 9th - 10th
Daigo-ji, Kyoto ● ●
Kannon
century

Muromachi period,
45 ◎ Suiten (Nāgavajra) Onjô-ji, Shiga ●
15th century
Suitenku (Instruction of Rituals for Heian period,
46 ◎ Ishiyama-dera, Shiga May 6th-8th ●
Praying for Suiten) dated 1145
Kamakura -
The Museum Yamato
47 The Shintô Deity Komori Myôjin Nambokucho period, ●
14th century
Bunkakan

Heian period, 12th

48 Mirror with Komori Myôjin Image ● ●
century
Mirror with Komori Myôjin and Two Heian period, 12th
49 ● ●
attendants century
Mirror with Komori Myôjin and Two Heian period, 12th
50 ● ●
attendants - 13th century
Kamakura period,
51 The Shintô Deity Wakamiyashin ● May 10th-15th
13th - 14th century
Nambokucho
52 ○ Iwashimizu Hachiman Shrine Mandala period, 14th Nezu Museum only in Suntory Musuem of Art
century
Kamakura period, Kuboso Memorial
53 ◎ Crossing the Bridge at Yamazaki May 17th-29th
13th century Museum of Arts, Izumi

From Mitarashi
Mirror with Chrysanthemums and Paired Heian period, 12th
54 Pond, Mt. Haguro, Tokyo National Museum ● ●
Birds century
Yamagata

From Mitarashi
Mirror with Beach, Bushclover and Paired Kamakura period,
55 Pond, Mt. Haguro, Tokyo National Museum ● ●
Birds 13th century
Yamagata

Seated Image of A Shintô Deity in Child Kamakura period,

56 Seto Shrine, Kanagawa ● ●
Form 14th century
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Kamakura period,
57 Seated Female Shintô Deity Seto Shrine, Kanagawa ● ●
14th century
Kamakura -
Nambokucho
58 Seated Male Shintô Deity Seto Shrine, Kanagawa ● ●
period,
14th century
Kamakura -
Nambokucho
59 Seated Female Shintô Deity Seto Shrine, Kanagawa ● ●
period,
14th century
Kamakura period,
60 Seated Male Shintô Deity Seto Shrine, Kanagawa ● ●
14th century
Kamakura -
Nambokucho Tsurugaoka Hachiman
61 Seated Sumiyoshi Deity ● ●
period, Shrine, Kanagawa
14th century
Painted by Tosa
Mitsuoki and Edo period, dated
62 ◎ Illustrated Legends of Ô-dera, scroll 1, 2 Calligraphy by
Aguchi Shrine, Osaka only in Suntory Musuem of Art
1690
Konoe Motohiro et al

Muromachi period,
63 Illustrated Tale of Sumiyoshi, scroll 2 Suntory Museum of Art ●
16th century
Edo period, 17th - Omiya Library, Ryukoku
64 Illustrated books Tale of Sumiyoshi ●
18th century University
Muromachi period,
65 ◎ Inkstone Box with Mt. Ogura Design in Maki-e Suntory Museum of Ar ●
15th century

Mirror with Shrine, Pine Trees and Paired Muromachi period,

66 Tokyo National Museum ●
Birds Design 15th - 16th century

Section 3: Prayers to Water

Album of The Lotus Sutra
Heian period, 12th
67-1 ◉ (Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra in Chinese) Shitennô-ji, Osaka only in Suntory Musuem of Art
century
on Fan Paper, vol.1
Album of The Lotus Sutra
Heian period, 12th
67-2 ◉ (Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra in Chinese) Shitennô-ji, Osaka May 17th-29th
century
on Fan Paper,
Illutrated Legends of Ishiyama-dera, scroll 2 and Edo period, 19th
68 Tani Bunchô Suntory Museum of Art scroll 2 scroll 7
7 century
Lotus Sutra (Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra in Heian period, 11th-
69 ○ Kyoto National Museum ●
Chinese), vol. 5 12th century
Lotus Sutra, Fumon-bon
Heian period, 12th
70 ◎ (Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra in Chinese, chap. Tokugawa Art Museum only in Suntory Musuem of Art
century
25)
China, Yuan-Ming
Lotus Sutra (Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra in
71 dynasty, 14th Tokugawa Art Museum ●
Chinese), vol. 7
century
Heian period,
72 ◉ Dragon King (Nāgarāja) Zennyo Jôchi Kongôbu-ji, Wakayama only in Suntory Musuem of Art
dated 1145
Muromachi period,
73 ◎ Dragon King (Nāgarāja) Zennyo Daitsû-ji, Kyoto April 9th-17tn ●
15th century
Kamakura period,
74 ◎ Dragon King (Nāgarāja) Zennyo Daitsû-ji, Kyoto ●
13th - 14th century
Muromachi period,
75 Dragon King (Nāgarāja) Zennyo Rakuden-ji, Nara ●
15th century
Kamakura period,
76 ◎ Standing Dragon King (Nāgarāja) Zennyo Hôryû-ji, Nara ● ●
13th - 14th century
Kamakura period,
77 Seated Dragon King (Nāgarāja) Zennyo Hôryû-ji, Nara ● ●
12th - 13th century
The Legends of Hôryû-ji Hanayama Kamakura period,
78 Kenshin Hôryû-ji, Nara ●
Ryûchi 13th century
Muromachi period,
79 ◎ Suijin (Deity of Water) Kongôbu-ji, Wakayama ● ●
15th century
Scabbard: Heian
period, 12th
century; Blade and
Sword with Dragon King Kurikara
80 ◎ Shrine: Kamakura Ryûkô-in, Wakayama Sword and Shrine Sword
(Kulika) Decoration
- Nambokucho
period, 14th
century
Dragon King Kurikara (Kulika) Sword Heian period, 12th
81 ◎ Ishiyama-dera, Shiga ●
with Three Child Attendants century
Dragon King Kurikara (Kulika) Sword Kamakura period,
82 ◎ Nara National Museum ●
with Two Child Attendants 13th century
Edo period, 17th
83 Standing Dragon King (Nāgarāja) Zennyo Enkû Onjô-ji, Shiga only in Suntory Musuem of Art
century
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Nambokucho
Nested Boxes for a Wish-granting Jewel
84 ◎ period, 14th Nara National Museum ●
with Scenes of Kasuga and Dragon Deities
century
Kamakura period,
85 Stand for Sacred Jewel Kaijûsen-ji, Kyoto only in Suntory Musuem of Art
14th century
Kamakura period,
86 Miniature Pagoda with Sacred Jewel Kaijûsen-ji, Kyoto ●
14th century
Kamakura period,
87 ◎ Diagram of Hachiman Shrines Shômyô-ji, Kanagawa ●
14th century
Kamakura period,
88 ◎ Kiuhô-nikki Diary Shôken Tokyo National Museum ●
dated 1191
Nambokucho
Instructions for Praying for Rain Sutra
89 period, 14th Hôryû-ji, Nara ●
Rituals
century
Kamakura period,
90 ◎ Diagram of Shinsen'en Shômyô-ji, Kanagawa ●
14th century
Diagram of the Ritual Space for the Kamakura period,
91 ◎ Shômyô-ji, Kanagawa ●
Praying for Rain Sutra Ritual 14th century
Daiunkyô Kiu Danpô (Praying for Rain Heian period, Omiya Library, Ryukoku
92 ●
Sutra Ritual Procedural Manual) dated 1149 University
Shôu Kyô Hô Shidai (Praying for Rain Kamakura period, Omiya Library, Ryukoku
93 ●
Sutra Ritual Procedural Manual) dated 1279 University
Shôu Kyô Hô Shidai (Praying for Rain Kamakura period, Omiya Library, Ryukoku
94 ●
Sutra Ritual Procedural Manual) dated 1279 University
Shôu Kyô Goma Shidai (Praying for Rain Kamakura period, Omiya Library, Ryukoku
95 ●
Sutra Ritual Procedural Manual) dated 1279 University
Nambokucho -
96 Dragon Heads Muromachi period, Ryûge-ji, Kanagawa ●
13th - 14th century
Kamakura period,
97 ◎ Bugaku Mask, Ryôô Atsuta Shrine, Aichi ●
dated 1284
Prayers for Rain Ritual Equipment, Edo period, 18th - Nariai Kasuga Shrine,
98 ● ●
Dragon and Snakes Gods 19th century Osaka
Kamakura period,
99 Manihôju (Cintāmaṇi) Mandala Tokyo National Museum May 17th-29th
14th century
Kamakura period,
100 Manihôju (Cintāmaṇi) Mandala ●
14th century
Muromachi period,
101 Manihôju (Cintāmaṇi) Mandala Mimuroto-ji, Kyoto ●
15th century
Nambokucho -
Shrine with Maki-e Decoration for a
102 ○ Muromachi period, ●
Manihôju (Cintāmaṇi) Mandala
14th - 15th century
Kamakura period,
103 Kujaku Myôô (Mahāmāyūrī) ●
13th century
Muromachi period,
104 Kujaku Myôô (Mahāmāyūrī) Shôgo-in, Kyoto ●
14th-15th century
Kamakura period,
105 ◎ Kujaku Kyô (Mahāmāyūrī Sūtra) Mandala Matsuo-dera, Osaka ●
13th century

Kujakukyô Hô Shidai (Praying for Kamakura period, Omiya Library, Ryukoku

106 ●
Mahāmāyūrī Sūtra Ritual Procedural Manual) dated 1279 University

Kamakura period,
107 ◎ Diagram of Mt. Murô Shômyô-ji, Kanagawa ●
14th century
Momoyama period, Omiya Library, Ryukoku
108 Will by Kôbô Daishi (Preist Kûkai) Copied by Jôshô ●
dated 1609 University
Misoka Gonenjuiden Hiketsu (Collection Kamakura period, Omiya Library, Ryukoku
109 ●
of the Manuals for Misoka Rituals) dated 1280 University
Manishû (Procedural Manual for Rituals Kamakura period, Omiya Library, Ryukoku
110 ●
Using a Jewel) dated 1304 University

Chapter 4: Water Utopias

Gandhara, Aroud
111 Preaching Buddha ● ●
3rd century
Nambokucho
Taima Mandala (Pure Land of Amitābha
112 period, 14th ●
Buddha Based on the Gugan wu liang shou jing )
century
Kamakura period,
113 Amida Jôdo zu (Amitābha's Pure Land) Tokugawa Art Museum ●
14th century
Kamakura period,
114 Kanmuryôju kyô (Guan wu liang shou jing ) Shôjôke-in, Kyoto ● ●
13th century
Yakusôyubon and Daibabon sections of
the Hokke Ippon gyô Heian period, 12th
115 Kongôbu-ji, Wakayama chap. 5 chap.12
(Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra in Chinese, century
chap. 5 and chap. 12)
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Amaravati, 1st -
116 Overflowing Full Vase (Purṇakumbha ) Sekido Museum of Art ● ●
2nd century
Nambokucho
117 Relic Shrine with Painting of Mt. Potalaka period, 14th Tokugawa Art Museum only in Suntory Musuem of Art
century
Kannon (Avalokiteśvara) with a Thousand
Kamakura period,
118 Arms and Eyes (Sahasra-bhuja-sahasranetra) Eikandô Zenrin-ji, Kyoto ● ●
14th century
with 28 Deities
China, Yuan
119 Kannon (Avalokiteśvara) with Willow dynasty, 14th Enshô-in, Nara only in Suntory Musuem of Art
century
Korea, Koryo
120 Kannon (Avalokiteśvara) with Willow dynasty, 14th Seigan-ji, Kyoto ●
century
Muromachi period,
121 Kannon (Avalokiteśvara) with Willow ●
15th century
Kamakura period,
122 ◎ Monju (Mañjuśrī) Crossing the Sea Eifuku-ji, Osaka ●
13th - 14th century
Kamakura period,
123 The Shintô Deity Sambô Kôjin Tokyo National Museum May 17th-29th
14th century
Muromachi period,
124 The Shintô Deity Kojima Kôjin 15th - 16th ● May 10th-15th
century
Kamakura period, The Museum Yamato
125 Rakan (Arhat) ●
13th - 14th century Bunkakan
Kamakura period,
126 ◎ Rakan (Arhat) Eikandô Zenrin-ji, Kyoto ●
13th - 14th century
Nambokucho
Tebako Box with Mt. Hôrai Design in
127 period, 14th Suntory Museum of Art ●
Maki-e
century
Inkstone Box with Mt. Hôrai Design in Muromachi period,
128 Suntory Museum of Art ●
Maki-e 16th century
Incense Container with Mt. Hôrai Design Kamakura period,
129 ○ Suntory Museum of Art ●
in Maki-e and Mother-of-Pearl 13th - 14th century
Kamakura period,
130 Tebako Box with Mt. Hôrai Design in Maki-e Kyoto National Museum ●
13th century
Muromachi period,
131 ◎ Inkstone Box with Mt. Hôrai Design in Maki-e Kyoto National Museum ●
15th century
Muromachi period,
132 ◎ Mirror Box with Mt. Hôrai Design in Maki-e Atsuta Shrine, Aichi ●
15th century
Eight-lobed Mirror with Pines, Bamboo, Muromachi period,
133 ◎ Atsuta Shrine, Aichi ●
and Paired Cranes 15th century
The Museum of the
Edo period, 17th -
134 Illustrated Tale of Mt. Hôrai, scroll 1 Imperial Collections, ●
18th century
Sannomaru Shôzôkan
Kamakura period,
135 Mirror with Mt. Hôrai Design Tokyo National Museum ●
13th century
Nambokucho
136 Mirror with Mt. Hôrai Design period, 14th Tokyo National Museum ●
century
Illustrated Tale of Hikohohodemi-nomikoto, scroll Copied by Kanô
●
2 Osanobu, Kanô Edo period, dated
137 Tokyo National Museum
Illustrated Tale of Hikohohodemi-nomikoto, scroll Nakanobu and 1835
Kanô Tatsunobu only in Suntory Musuem of Art
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Screens with Pasted Images of Taishokkan Edo period, 17th
138 Shôkô-ji, Toyama left: April 26th-May
(Illustrated Tale of Fujiwarano Kamatari) century 8th

Taishokkan (Illustrated Tale of Fujiwarano Edo period, 17th - Omiya Library, Ryukoku
139 ●
Kamatari) 18th century University
Muromachi period,
140 Illustrated Tale of Tawara no Tôta, scroll 1 Konkaikômyô-ji, Kyoto ●
15th century
Screen with Image of Amewakahiko Edo period, 17th
141 ●
(Illustrated Tale of Amewakahiko) century
Edo period, 17th
142 Illustrated Tale of Amewakahiko, scroll 1 Suntory Museum of Art ●
century

Section 5: Water and Good Fortune

Mirror with Chrysanthemums, Water Ladle And Muromachi period,
143 Kyoto National Museum ● ●
Paired Birds 15th century
Mirror with Flowing Water,
Kamakura period,
144 Chrysanthemums, Flowers and Paired Tokyo National Museum ● ●
dated 1331
Cranes
Muromachi period,
145 ◎ Desk with Chrysanthemums Design in Maki-e Suntory Museum of Art ●
15th century
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Tokkuri Jar with Chrysanthemums and Edo period, 17th

146 Suntory Museum of Art ●
Water Design in Maki-e century
Red-cornered Incense Box with
Muromachi period,
147 Chrysanthemums and Water Stream Suntory Museum of Art ●
16th century
Design in Maki-e
Nuihaku Robe with Chrysanthemums and Edo period, 18th
148 Suntory Museum of Art ●
Water and Haze Design century
Tray with Waves and Rabbits Design in Edo period, 17th -
149 Suntory Museum of Art ●
Lacquer 18th century
Edo period, 18th
150 Handled Pot Tokyo National Museum ● ●
century
Cups with Tortoise and SeaShell, Design
in Maki-e and Cupstand with Waves and Edo period, 18th
151 Nagata Yûji Suntory Museum of Art ●
Mandarin Ducks Design in Mother-of-Pearl and century
Maki-e
Hot Water Pitcher with Tortoises and Edo period, 17th
152 Suntory Museum of Art ●
Flowing Water Design in Maki-e century
Edo period, dated
153 Green Maple Leaves and Waterfall Maruyama Ôkyo Suntory Museum of Art ●
1787
Kosode with Waterfall, Plum Blossoms Edo period, 18th
154 Suntory Museum of Art ●
and Maple Design century
Edo period, 17th
155 Towel Rack with Clam Shells Design in Maki-e Suntory Museum of Art ●
century
Noh Robe: Nuihaku Robe with Stepped Edo period, 18th-
156 Suntory Museum of Art ●
Waves, Clam Shells Design 19th century

Section 5: Sacred Water Sites

Muromachi period,
157 Hie Sannô and Gion Festivals Screens Suntory Museum of Art only in Suntory Museum of Art
16th century
Edo period, 17th
158 Lake Biwa and Hozu River Screens ●
century
Edo period, 17th April 26th-May
159 Itsukushima and Amanohashidate Screens Suntory Museum of Art
century 8th

Itsukushima and Miho no Matsubara Edo period, 17th

160 Suntory Museum of Art ●
Screens century

Edo period, 17th

161 Shitennô-ji and Sumiyoshi-Taisha Screens Suntory Museum of Art April 9th-24th
century
Shitennô-ji and Sumiyoshi-Taisha Edo period, 17th
162 Suntory Museum of Art ●
Festivals Screens century