Ōbai-in

Ōbai-in (黄梅院) is an autonomous sub-temple of Daitoku-ji, Kyoto, Japan,the headquarters of the Daitoku-ji school of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism. The Hondō (1586) and Kuri (1589) have been designated Important Cultural Properties.[1][2] Momoyama period monochrome fusuma paintings of Seven hermits in a bamboo grove (16 panels), Landscape with figures (14 panels), and Geese (14 panels), by Unkoku Tōgan (1588), have also been designated Important Cultural Properties.[3][4][5][6] The severed head of the statue of Sen no Rikyū, its position fatally regarded as hubristic by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, was once kept at Obai-in.[7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Database of Registered National Cultural Properties". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
  2. ↑ "Database of Registered National Cultural Properties". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
  3. ↑ "Database of Registered National Cultural Properties". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
  4. ↑ "Database of Registered National Cultural Properties". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
  5. ↑ "Database of Registered National Cultural Properties". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
  6. ↑ Noma, Seiroku (2003). The Arts of Japan: Late medieval to modern. Kodansha. p. 306. ISBN 4-7700-2978-0.
  7. ↑ Levine, Gregory P.A. (2005). Daitokuji: The Visual Cultures of a Zen Monastery. University of Washington Press. p. 138. ISBN 0-295-98540-2.

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Coordinates: 35°2′30.2″N 135°44′45.8″E / 35.041722°N 135.746056°E / 35.041722; 135.746056

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