Ryukoku Museum

申し訳ありません、このコンテンツはただ今　アメリカ英語　のみです。

In a series of exhibitions, entitled “Asian Buddhism” and “Japanese Buddhism,” the museum has been presenting Buddhism’s approximately twenty-five hundred year journey, from its birth in India, spread throughout Asia, and establishment in Japanese society.
This latest exhibition focuses on the birds and beasts that appear in Buddhist tales, that serve the buddhas and gods, and are depicted in Buddhist architecture. While we are usually dazzled by beautiful sculptures and paintings of buddhas and bodhisattvas, this exhibition invites visitors to shift their gaze to the colorful living things that accompany such figures. Also, on special display is a series of paintings depicting the life of the Buddha by the nihonga Japanese-style painter Nosu Kosetsu (1885–1973). After participating in the 1917 project to copy the Ajanta Cave Murals, in 1936 he completed a large biographical mural of Shakyamuni at Mulagandha Kuti Vihara in India.