[Buddhist prayer scroll with pagoda container.]
[Japan : s.n.,
ca. A.D. 770]
An example of the oldest known printed texts, the first certain printing with copper blocks upon paper, printed in Japan for the Empress Shotoku about A.D. 770.
Prayer scroll in an opaque glass frame and pagoda in wooden box.
National Library of Scotland. Notable accessions since 1925,
Hyakumantō darani
Buddhism
Printing