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Descent of the Nine Luminaries and the Seven Stars at Kasuga

mid- to late 1300s
Hanging scroll; ink, color, gold and cut gold on silk

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A 19th-century copy of this painting in ink and light color exists at the Kyoto City University of Arts.

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