Minneapolis Institute of Art

Nitten 日天 (The Sun God)

Japan

Date: c. 1450
Medium: Hanging scroll, ink with original hand coloring
Department: Asian Art
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Art

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. Asia

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