Title: Pilgrim's Visiting Album
Object type: Book
Date: 18th century
Culture: Japan
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Medium: One from a set of four albums; calligraphy on gilt paper and paper, paintings in ink, color, and gold on paper, mounted on paper, covers of silk embroidery with colored and metallic thread
Dimensions: Album closed: 7 3/8 × 11 3/4 × 5/8 in. (18.7 × 29.8 × 1.6 cm)
Album open: 44 1/8 × 11 3/4 in. (112.1 × 29.8 cm)
Classification: Illustrated Books
Credit line: Gift of Mary L. Cassilly, 1894
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Buddhism, term: Buddha, term: Monks