Commemorating the 1200th Anniversary of Saichō’s Death

Buddhist Art of the Tendai School

List of Works

8 February 2022 (Tue) – 21 March 2022 (Mon)
Opening Hours: 09:30–17:00 (Tuesdays–Sundays; last admission at 16:30)
Closed: Mondays (open on 21 March)
Organizers: Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka Prefecture; Tendai Buddhist Denomination; Enryakuji Temple;
The Yomiuri Shimbun; The Nishinippon Shimbun; Agency for Cultural Affairs

14No.

8–13 February
1–6 March
DesignationTitle

1 Saichō and the Roots of Tendai Buddhism
Prince Shōtoku and the1National Treasure High Priests of the Tendai
SchoolImportant Cultural Portrait of Tendai Daishi
2Property(Priest Zhiyi)
Important Cultural Portrait of Tiantai Dashi
4Property(Priest Zhiyi)
Important Cultural Dengyō Daishi (Priest7PropertySaichō)
Documents relating to theNational Treasure ordination of Dengyō Daishi
10(Priest Saichō)
Official travel permits for
National Treasure Dengyō Daishi (Priest11Saichō)
Document testifyingthat Saichō had learned
16esoteric teachings underAcharya Shunxiao
Records of the Secret
Important Cultural Transmission of Buddhist
17Property
Teachings in India, China,and Japan
List of objects brought fromNational Treasure China by Dengyō Daishi
18(Priest Saichō)
List of ritual objects for
Esoteric Buddhism brought
National Treasure
19
from China by PriestSaichō
Essential Teachings forNational
Treasure
21
Tendai Lotus Sect Priests
List of Objects Brought
National Treasure from China by Kōbō Daishi
23(Priest Kūkai)Order issued byImportant Cultural
27
government headquarters
Property
in Dazaifu
Objects excavated fromMt. Hōman (alleged site of28-1
one of Saichō’s six plannedpagodas)(1) Round eave-end tile
28-2(2) Round eave-end tile(3) Round tile

28-3
28-4

25Display Periods

15–20 February
8–13 March

Creator36

22–27 February
15–21 March
DisplayPeriod

1Priest Zhiyi● ● ●23456

EraDates

Owner

Heian period

11th century

Ichijōji Temple, Hyōgo

Kamakura
period13th century

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga

China,Southern Songdynasty

13th century

Saikyōji Temple, Shiga● ● ●Kamakura
periodDated 1224

Kannonji Temple, Shiga● ● ● ● ● ●Nara period

8th century

Raigōin Temple, Kyoto● ● ●China, TangdynastyDated 804–5

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga● ● ●China, Tangdynasty

Dated 805

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga● ● ●Heian period

12th century

Myōhōin Temple, Kyoto

By Saichō

China, Tangdynasty

Dated 805

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga

By Saichō

Heian period

Dated 811

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga

By Saichō

Heian period

9th century

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga

By Saichō

Heian period

9th century

Kyōōgokokuji Temple(Tōji Temple), Kyoto

Heian period

Dated 937

Iwashimizu Hachimangū
Shrine, Kyoto● ● ● ● ● ●Heian period9th–10th century

Dazaifu City Board ofEducation, Fukuoka● ● ● ● ● ●Heian period

9th–10th century

Private collection● ● ● ● ● ●Heian period

9th–10th century

Dazaifu City Board ofEducation, Fukuoka● ● ● ● ● ●By Zhang Sixun(4) Tathāgata

Heian period

9th–10th century

Dazaifu City Board ofEducation, Fukuoka

8th–9th century

Shōjuraikōji Temple,Shiga

10th century

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga

PriestZhanran

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Property

Buddhist scepter

China, Tangdynasty, or
Heian period

33

Important Cultural
Property

Lotus Sutra

Heian period

36-1

Footed chest bearing theJapanese imperial seal

Meiji era

Dated 1891

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga● ● ● ● ● ●36-3

Portrait of Emperor Kanmu

Muromachi
periodDated 1446

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga● ● ●13th–14th century

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga

36-4

Lotus Sutra

Vol. 7

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Kamakura
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Designation

2 Saichō’s Disciples
39

Important Cultural
Property

40

Important Cultural
Property
Important Cultural
Property41
43

National Treasure

44

Important Cultural
Property

47

Important Cultural
Property
Important Cultural
Property

49
50

Important Cultural
Property

52

Important Cultural
Property

54

Important Cultural
Property

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Important Cultural
Property

56

Important Cultural
Property

57

Important Cultural
Property

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59

Important Cultural
Property61

National Treasure

64

Important Cultural
Property

67

Important Cultural
Property69

National Treasure

70

National Treasure

71

National Treasure

73

National Treasure

74

National Treasure

76

Important Cultural
Property

77

Important Cultural
Property

78

Important Cultural
Property

Creator

The Three Founders of
Tendai Buddhism
High Priests, Vol. 1
High Priests, Vol. 2

Record of Priest Ennin’s
Pilgrimage to China in
Search of the Buddhist Law
Inventory of Sutras Brought
Back from China by PriestEnnin
LetterBy Ken’in

By EnninĀryāvalokiteśvara

Mandala of the Eighty-One
Deities of the DiamondRealm

Mandala of the Two Realms
Mirror depicting the Courtof Eight Petals from theWomb Realm
Mirror depicting Amitābha
and four other deities
Alcove with a carved imageof the Pure Land Mandala
Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva

Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva withAttendants
Ritual implements ofEsoteric Buddhism
Chishō Daishi (Enchin;statue known as Chūson
Daishi)
Records of a Pilgrimage

Iconographic Drawings ofthe Womb World Mandala,Vol. 2
Certificate issued bygovernment headquartersin Dazaifu
Authorization certificatesissued to Enchin by theauthorities in Yuezhou andthe central government
Inventory of Sutras
Brought Back from Fuzhou,
Wenzhou, and Taizhou
Chinese farewell poems
and missives presented toEnchin
Inventory of sutras broughtback from Guoqing Temple

By Enchin

Annotations by Enchin

Acalanātha

Acalanātha with Eight
Attendants
Acalanātha with Three
Attendants and Five
EnvoysMaitreya Bodhisattva

79
80

Title

Important Cultural
Property

85

88

Important Cultural
Property

89

Important Cultural
Property

90

Important Cultural
Property

91

Important Cultural
Property

Silla Myōjin (deity of theKorean kingdom of Silla)
Gohō Dōji (guardian spirit)and items found inside
Combined Esoteric
Buddhist Writings ofSeveral Masters and Listof Articles Bought Back by
the Eight Japanese Priests
Who Visited China
Shittanzō (SanskritGlossary), Vol. 5
Acalanātha with Two
Attendants
Acalanātha with Two
Attendants

By Shōgō

Display
Period123456EraDates

Owner

Kamakura
period14th century

Kondaiin Temple, Shiga

Heian period

Dated 1163

Ninnaji Temple, Kyoto

Heian period

Dated 1163

Daitōkyū Memorial
Library, Tokyo

Kamakura
periodDated 1291

Private collection● ● ● ● ● ●Kamakura
period13th century

Kyoto National Museum● ● ●Heian period

857 or 858

Shōren’in Temple, Kyoto● ● ●Heian period

12th century

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga● ● ● ● ● ●Kamakura
period13th century

Nezu Museum, Tokyo● ●Kamakura
period14th century

Taisanji Temple, Hyōgo

Heian period

Dated 997Sanbutsuji Temple, Tottori● ● ● ● ● ●Heian period

Dated 988

Private collection● ● ● ● ● ●Heian period

11th–12th century

Kōsanji Temple,Hiroshima● ● ● ● ● ●Kamakura
period13th century

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga● ● ●Kamakura
period13th century

Tokyo National Museum

Kamakura
period13th–14th century

Jikōji Temple, Saitama● ● ● ● ● ●Heian period

10th century

Onjōji Temple (MiiTemple), Shiga● ● ● ● ● ●Kamakura
period12th century

Ishiyama Temple, Shiga● ● ●Kamakura
periodDated 1194

Nara National Museum● ● ●Heian period

Dated 853

Tokyo National Museum● ● ● ● ● ●China, Tangdynasty

Dated 855

Onjōji Temple (MiiTemple), Shiga

China, Tangdynasty

Dated 854

Onjōji Temple (MiiTemple), Shiga● ● ●Heian period

9th century

Onjōji Temple (MiiTemple), Shiga● ● ●China, Tangdynasty

Dated 857

Onjōji Temple (MiiTemple), Shiga

Heian period

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Shōgoin Temple, Kyoto● ● ● ● ● ●Kamakuraperiod

12th–13th centuryOnjōji Temple (MiiTemple), Shiga● ● ●Kamakura
period13th century

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga● ● ●Kamakura
period13th century

Kyoto National Museum● ● ●Kamakura
period13th century

Onjōji Temple (MiiTemple), Shiga● ● ●Kamakura
period13th century

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga● ● ● ● ● ●Heian period

Dated 1091

Shōren’in Temple, Kyoto● ● ●Heian period

Dated 1085

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga● ● ●Kamakura
period13th century

Dairin’in Temple, Shiga● ● ●Kamakura
period13th century

Ekōin Temple, Shiga

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Title

Creator

3 The Spread of Tendai Buddhism in Japan
Mahaprajnaparamita
Sutra, scroll 40 (Hidehira104-2 National Treasuresutra), from the Tripiṭaka ofChūsonji Temple
Great Tang Records on theWestern Regions, scroll
Important Cultural105
1 (Kiyohira sutra), from
Property
the Tripiṭaka of ChūsonjiTemple
Jeweled Pagoda Mandala
National Treasure (Sovereign Kings of the107
Golden Light Sutra), no. 1
Bodhisattva, purportedly
111
Cintāmaṇicakra112
113
114
115

Important Cultural
Property
Important Cultural
Property
Important Cultural
Property
Important Cultural
Property

116
117
120

Important CulturalProperty

121

Important Cultural
Property122

Important Cultural
Property

123
125

Important Cultural
Property

126

Important Cultural
Property

128

Important Cultural
Property

129

Important Cultural
Property

130

Important Cultural
Property

132
133

Important Cultural
Property138

Important Cultural
Property
Important Cultural
Property140
142

National Treasure

145
146
148

149

Important Cultural
Property

National Treasure

150

Important Cultural
Property

152

Important Cultural
Property

154

Important Cultural
Property

1

2

3

4

5

6DatesOwner

Heian period

12th century

Chūsonji Daichōjuin
Temple, Iwate

Heian period

12th century

Tokyo National MuseumHeian period

12th century

Chūsonji Daichōjuin
Temple, Iwate● ● ● ● ● ●Kamakura
period13th century

Tōmyōji Temple, Ehime● ● ● ● ● ●● ● ● ● ● ●

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Mahākāla (Daikokuten)

Heian period

11th century

Kanzeonji Temple,
FukuokaBodhisattva

Heian period

11th century

Dairakuji Temple, Ōita● ● ● ● ● ●Vaiśravaṇa

Heian period

12th century

Daikōzenji Temple, Saga

● ● ● ● ● ●Kamakura
periodDated 1288

Engyōji Temple, Hyōgo● ● ● ● ● ●Kamakura
period13th century

Engyōji Temple, Hyōgo● ● ● ● ● ●Muromachi
period15th century

Nezu Museum, Tokyo● ● ● ●

Bodhisattva

Asuka period

7th–8th century

Daisenji Temple, Tottori● ● ● ● ● ●Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva

China,Northern Songdynasty

11th–12th century

Daisenji Temple, Tottori● ● ● ● ● ●Kamakura
period14th century

Shirayamahime Shrine,Ishikawa● ● ●Muromachi
period16th century

Kunigami Shrine, Fukui● ● ●Nara to Heianperiod

8th–9th century

Rinnōji Temple, Tochigi● ● ● ● ● ●Kamakura
period13th century

Rinnōji Temple, Tochigi● ● ● ● ● ●Kamakura
periodLate 12th–early
13th century

Hikosan Shrine, Fukuoka● ● ● ● ● ●Heian period

Dated 1130

Chōanji Temple, Ōita● ● ● ● ● ●Heian period

Dated 1141

Nara National Museum● ● ● ● ● ●Kamakura
period13th century

Nara National Museum● ● ● ● ● ●Kamakura
period13th century

Gakuenji Temple,Shimane● ● ● ● ● ●Muromachi
periodDated 1524

Shinshōgokurakuji
Temple (ShinnyodōTemple), Kyoto● ● ● ● ● ●Kamakura
periodKamakura
period13th centuryJōdoji Temple, Ehime● ● ● ● ● ●14th century

Kakurinji Temple, Hyōgo● ● ●Heian period

Dated 972

Rozanji Temple, Kyoto● ● ●Muromachi
period15th century

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga● ● ●Muromachi
period15th century

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga● ● ●Heian period

Dated 1171

Shōren’in Temple, Kyoto● ● ● ● ● ●Shōkū Shōnin (PriestShōkū)
Gohō Dōji (Ototen)(guardian spirit)
Cintāmaṇicakra from Mt.
Shosha (Engyōji Temple)

By Keikai

Three Enshrined Deities ofMt. Haku
Mt. Haku Pilgrimage
MandalaPriest’s staff (purportedlyowned by Shōdō Shōnin)Ritual axe formountaineering
Images of the three avatarsof Mt. Hiko
Tarō-ten with twoattendants
Sutra case withhairline engravings ofSamantabhadra and theTen Rākṣasīs, and asteatite outer case
Round plate with an imageof Āryāvalokiteśvara
Round plate with an imageof Ekadaśamukha4 Tendai Art and the Nobility
137

Display
PeriodEra

The Origins of Shinnyodō
Temple, Vol. 2

Illustrations byKamonnosuke Hisakuni,
calligraphy by Emperor
Gokashiwabara andothers

Kūya Shōnin (Priest Kūya)
Jie Daishi (Priest Ryōgen)Will and Testament
Eshin Sōzu (PriestGenshin)
Eshin Sōzu (PriestGenshin)
Essential Teachings forRebirth in the Pure Land,
Vol. 2

Rokudō-e (The Six Paths)(1) “King Enma’s Court”(2) “Impermanence in the
Human Realm”(3) “The Hell of Inking Line”(4) “The Realm of Heavenly
BeingsThe Descent of Amitābhawith Divine Attendants
The Descent of Amitābhawith Divine AttendantsKaraṇḍamudrā Dhāraṇī

By Ryōgen

Kamakura
period13th century

Shōjuraikōji Temple,Shiga(1)● ● ● ● ● ●(2)● ● ● ● ● ●

(3)

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12th century

Jōgon’in Temple, Shiga

Heian period

12th century

Hase Temple, Nara

● ● ●12th century

Saifukuin Temple,
Hiroshima● ● ● ● ● ●Heian period

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Designation

155

Important Cultural
Property

158

National Treasure

159

National Treasure

162

Important Cultural
Property163

National Treasure

166

National Treasure

168

National Treasure

170

Important Cultural
Property

172
173
175

Important Cultural
Property
National Treasure

Title

Important Cultural
Property

185

Important Cultural
Property

Heian period

Dated 1031

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga● ● ● ● ● ●Heian period

Dated 1007

Kinpu Shrine, Nara

● ● ● ● ● ●Heian period

11th century

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga● ● ●Heian period

11th century

Sensōji Temple, Tokyo

Heian period

12th century

Tokyo National Museum

Heian period

12th century

Bujōji Temple, Tottori

Heian period

12th century

Rozanji Temple, Kyoto

Vajrāmoghasamayasattva

Kamakura
period13th–14th century

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga

Enma-ten Mandala

Kamakura
period13th century

Kyoto National Museum● ● ●Heian period

11th century

Kyoto National Museum● ● ● ● ● ●Kamakura
periodDated 1224Shōren’in Temple, Kyoto● ● ● ● ● ●Nanboku-chō
period14th century

Shōren’in Temple, Kyoto● ● ●Muromachi
period15th century

Eizan Archives, Enryakuji
Temple, Shiga

Kamakura
periodKamakura
period14th century

Taisanji Temple, Hyōgo

13th–14th century

Oribe Shrine, Nara

Kamakura
period13th century

Myōhōin Temple, Kyoto● ● ● ● ● ●Kamakura to
Nanboku-chō
period14th century

Nara National Museum● ● ●Kamakura
period14th century

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga

Kamakura
periodKamakura
period14th century

Hyakusaiji Temple, Shiga

14th century

Saikyōji Temple, Shiga● ● ●Kamakura
periodDated 1218

Nara National Museum● ● ● ● ● ●Muromachi
periodMuromachi
periodDated 1503

Saikyōji Temple, Shiga● ●15th century

Sairenji Temple, Mie

Illustrated Story of ZegaibōNanboku-chō
period14th century

Manshuin Temple, Kyoto

Command of EmperorŌgimachi, from the
documents related to therestoration of Enryakuji
TempleAzuchiMomoyama
periodDated 1585

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga● ● ● ● ● ●Edo period

17th century

Enryakuji Temple, Shiga● ● ● ● ● ●Edo period

17th century

Kan’eiji Temple, Tokyo● ● ● ● ● ●Edo period

17th century

Kan’eiji Temple, Tokyo● ● ● ● ● ●Edo period

17th century

Rinnōji Temple, Tochigi● ● ● ● ● ●Korea, Goryeodynasty

14th century

Shigain Temple, Shiga● ● ● ● ● ●Edo period

Dated 1640

Rinnōji Temple, Tochigi● ● ●Edo period

17th century

Ryōshiji Temple, ŌitaBy Tomo no Nobusuke

Lotus Sutra, Vol. 5

Lotus Sutra from SensōjiTemple, Vol. 6
Fan-shaped booklet of theLotus Sutra
Samantabhadra
Bodhisattva
Samantabhadra and theTen RākṣasīsŚākyamuni Rising from His
Golden Coffin

Lotus Sutra Mandala

Portrait of Retired Emperor
Goshirakawa

Important Cultural
Property

194

Important Cultural
Property
Important Cultural
Property

Mandala of Hie Sannō
Shrine Honjibutsu (Shintōgods as Buddhist deities)

Hie Sannō Shrine Mandala
Hie Sannō Shrine Mandala

Hanging votive of deities ofthe Sannō Ten Shrines

202

Portrait of Shinsei Shōnin

By Tōryū

204

LetterBy Shinsei

Important Cultural
Property

Important Cultural
212-2 Property

6● ● ● ● ● ●191

210

5Seiganji Temple, Fukuoka

Sannōmiya Shrine Mandala

Important Cultural
Property4

Dated 955

Important Cultural
Property

199

3China, Five
Dynasties
period190

196

2OwnerLotus Sutra Mandala

184

1Dates5 Diverse Cultures Engendered by Tendai Thought
Draft of a temple prayer
Important Cultural
By Jien178
for Shōryōin in Shitennōji
Property
Temple“Great Teachings of Shijōkō
Important Cultural 2” from the Mon’yō-ki
181
Property(records pertaining toShōren’in Temple)“Great Teachings ofKundali” from the Asabashō
182(books of Tendai EsotericBuddhist practices)183

Display
PeriodEra

Stupa, one of Qian
Hongchu’s 84,000 stupas
Sutra box with hōsōge
flower designs
Sutra case for Lotus Sutra
scrolls written by Fujiwara
no Michinaga

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6 Tendai Buddhism in the Edo Period
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Important Cultural
Property

217
218

Important Cultural
Property

220

Important Cultural
Property

228
229
230

Jigen Daishi (Priest Tenkai)

Tenkai-edition Tripiṭaka,Vol. 598
Wooden movable types
used in printing the Tenkaiedition TripiṭakaRevelatory Dream of Tōshō
Daigongen (TokugawaIeyasu)
Amitābha with Eight Great
Bodhisattvas
Amitābha with Eight Great
Bodhisattvas
Amitābha with Eight Great
Bodhisattvas

Illustration by Kanō
Tan’yū, inscription byTenkai

By Kimura Ryōtaku

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