Title: Portable Shrine of Miroku Bosatsu with Sacred Sanskrit Syllable
Object type: Box
Date: 19th century
Culture: Japan
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Medium: Gold maki-e on black lacquer
Dimensions: H. 1 in. (2.5 cm); Diam. 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)
Classification: Lacquer
Credit line: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Men, term: Buddhism, term: Bodhisattvas