Box

Long wooden box for storing three Japanese Buddhist paintings. There is a printed label of the San Fransico dealer G.T. Marsh & Co. pasted on the inside of the lid. A brush and ink inscription on the outside of the lid specifies the three paintings as follows:

百體觀世音菩薩

Hyakutai Kanzeon bosatsu

“100 Body [Manifestations] Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara.”

光明曼荼羅

Kōmyō mandara

“Light mandala”

四國八十八箇所本尊

Shikoku hachi jū hachi-kasho honzon

“Principal deity images from the 88 sites of the Shikoku pilgrimage.”

三幅

Sanfuku

“Three scrolls”