Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage by a pilgrim
 
Dimesions:167*64 cm

Buddhist Kannon Bosatsu Nokyojiku, hanging scroll with stamps seal of several Japanese temples and inscriptions (shuin)  – painted on silk
Collected at temples visited at the Saigoku pilgrimage circuit. At each temple the pilgrim asks the custodian of the temple to stamp and inscribe his scroll. These scrolls are carried mostly by pilgrims who travel along the 88 holy sites of Shikoku, and by pilgrims who complete a circuit of Kannon temples, and/or of Fudo Myo-o temples.
 
Hanging scroll with mounting , as used for Buddhist paintings. The image of the bodhisattva Kannon standing on a lotus, with a sign by a pilgrim underneath, is hand-painted in black ink, red and gold, in the center of the silk. She is surrounded by 37 stamps and poems (goeika, originally written by Emperor Kazan, after his retirement, specifically for each of the temples), collected on the circuit of 33 temples of the Saigoku Pilgrimage (Kansai area), that are dedicated to the bodhisattva Kannon, at and four other temples.