Concise Illustrated Biography of Monk Nichiren: Calming the Stormy Sea at Tsunoda in Exile to Sado Island

Utagawa Kuniyoshi Japanese

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The story of the life of Nichiren (1222–1282), the iconoclastic founder of the sect of Buddhism that bears his name, has inspired legions of his followers to the present day. Kuniyoshi’s series of prints captures the dramatic moments of the priest’s biography, including this scene of a vision of the sect’s main devotion, the invocation “Praise to the Sutra of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma [Namu Myōhō Renge Kyo],” in the ocean waves as Nichiren travels to exile in 1272.

Concise Illustrated Biography of Monk Nichiren: Calming the Stormy Sea at Tsunoda in Exile to Sado Island, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861), Woodblock print; ink and color on paper, Japan

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