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Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals of the Buddhist Clergy

late 1300s–1400s
Fragment of a handscroll remounted as a hanging scroll; ink and slight color on paper

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The monk Myōe kept a diary of his dreams that survives in fragments today.

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