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A painted hand scroll with four large figures side by side and dressed in orange robes with circles behind their heads. There is a smaller, blue-skinned figure also dressed in orange. They are sitting cross-legged on lotuses. One larger figure is encircled by smaller figures that are dressed in detailed orange attires.

Seven Forms of Avalokitesvara (Kannon Bosatsu), Vol. 6 of the Iconographic Compendium (Zuzōshō)

Japanese

Handscroll; ink and color paper

Kamakura period, 1185-1333

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