Title: “The Historical Buddha Preaching,” a section from The Illustrated Sutra of Past and Present Karma (Kako genzai inga kyō emaki)
Object type: Hanging scroll
Date: mid-8th century
Culture: Japan
Period: Nara period (710–794)
Artist:  Unidentified artist Japanese, mid-8th century
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Handscroll section mounted as a hanging scroll;  ink and color on paper
Dimensions: Image: 10 1/8 × 10 3/4 in. (25.7 × 27.3 cm)
Overall with mounting: 49 3/16 × 16 3/4 in. (125 × 42.6 cm)
Overall with knobs: 49 3/16 × 17 13/16 in. (125 × 45.3 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit line: Purchase, Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; The Vincent Astor Foundation and Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gifts, 2016
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Men, term: Buddha