Concise Illustrated Biography of Monk Nichiren: In Snow at Tsukahara on Sado Island

Utagawa Kuniyoshi Japanese

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Kuniyoshi’s series of ten prints published in 1835–36 was an abridged biography of the life of the monk Nichiren (1222–1282), the founder of the Nichiren Buddhist sect, which is based on the worship of the Lotus Sutra. Nichiren lived in exile on Sado Island from 1271 to 1274.

Concise Illustrated Biography of Monk Nichiren: In Snow at Tsukahara on Sado Island, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861), Woodblock print; ink and color on paper, Japan

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