Pair of vertical wooden plaques on Main Gate (Sanmon 三門/山門), Manpukuji (萬福寺)

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Pair of vertical wooden plaques on Main Gate (Sanmon 三門/山門), Manpukuji (萬福寺) Pascal, Elodie; Chan, Chien-Cho; Fung, On-Tsun

Description

Pair of vertical wooden plaques (Image 01 and Image 03) written in calligraphic script by Yinyuan Longqi (Jp. Ingen Ryūki) 隠元隆琦 (1592-1673), located on the right and left side of the main gate (Sanmon 三門/山門) of Manpukuji 萬福寺, an Ōbaku Zen (黄檗) temple in Uji 宇治, Kyoto prefecture 京都府, Japan. The plaque on the right reads: 地闢千秋日月山川同慶喜 (Image 02). The plaque on the left reads: 門開萬福人天龍象任登臨 (Image 03).

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Title	Pair of vertical wooden plaques on Main Gate (Sanmon 三門/山門), Manpukuji (萬福寺)
Creator	Pascal, Elodie; Chan, Chien-Cho; Fung, On-Tsun
Contributor	From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued	2023-07-25
Description	Pair of vertical wooden plaques (Image 01 and Image 03) written in calligraphic script by Yinyuan Longqi (Jp. Ingen Ryūki) 隠元隆琦 (1592-1673), located on the right and left side of the main gate (Sanmon 三門/山門) of Manpukuji 萬福寺, an Ōbaku Zen (黄檗) temple in Uji 宇治, Kyoto prefecture 京都府, Japan. The plaque on the right reads: 地闢千秋日月山川同慶喜 (Image 02). The plaque on the left reads: 門開萬福人天龍象任登臨 (Image 03).
Subject	Manpukuji; Wanfu Temple; Buddhism; Zen; Japanese religion; Obaku; 17th century; Plaque; Calligraphy; Couplet; Monk
Geographic Location	Uji-shi (Japan); Kyoto (Japan); 34.91384; 135.80588
Type	Still Image
Language	jpn; chi
Notes	Author affiliations: University of Edinburgh, Columbia University, University of British Columbia
Series	Cluster 1.5: Extended Textual Communities
Date Available	2024-01-04
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0438440
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87101
Affiliation	Arts, Faculty of; Asian Studies, Department of; Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Graduate; Researcher
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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