Jakabffy Imre szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 13. (Budapest, 1971)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Horváth, Tibor: Notes to the Iconography of the White-robed Kannon

Fig. 4. White-robed Kannon. A detail, llopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts The origin of the 32 Kencho-ji paintings has still not boon clarified satisfactorily. According to temple traditions the Kannons were painted by Shokei (Kei Shoki), who lived at the end of the loth century and the beginning of the Kith century and spent most of his life actually in Kencho-ji. after Ids study years in Kyoto in fîeinmi's circle. Concerning the pictures. Ilenho Shigeyasu wrote the following:

11 ". . . the pictures could 11 Kokuho-shu Taisei, vol. 11, 22—23.