{"id":752,"date":"2014-09-29T15:24:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T19:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/?p=752"},"modified":"2015-04-17T12:16:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T16:16:05","slug":"pilgrimage-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/2014\/09\/29\/pilgrimage-19\/","title":{"rendered":"19. Saigoku Pilgrimage Scroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan, 19th century; ink stamps on paper mounted on silk; mounted prints: 36 x 14 5\/8 in., overall including brocade and knobs: 58 1\/2 x 22 3\/4 in.; Private Collection.<\/p>\n<p>Composed of thirty-three sites dedicated to <b>Kannon<\/b> in Japan\u2019s Western Provinces, <b>Saigoku Pilgrimage<\/b> has been one of the country\u2019s most popular circuits from the medieval period to the present day. Each temple houses a main Kannon icon and prints a reproduction of it, called an <b><i>ofuda<\/i><\/b><i>. <\/i>Since the secret images are usually not revealed to the public, collecting <i>ofuda<\/i> during pilgrimage has become as important as the journey itself. Each of this scroll\u2019s <i>ofuda<\/i>, or block-printed stamp, represents a primary temple icon for every Saigoku Pilgrimage stop. These <i>ofuda<\/i> all have similarities, such as Kannon framed by a <b>mandorla<\/b>, standing on a lotus pedestal above rocky <b>Fudarakusan<\/b>. Yet, they also differ in form and iconography. From the inscription on the verso, we know that a man named Taro mounted this scroll to memorialize his recently deceased pilgrim father, who collected the images of Kannon that we see in this work. MD and LL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan, 19th century; ink stamps on paper mounted on silk; mounted prints: 36 x 14 5\/8 in., overall including brocade and knobs: 58 1\/2 x 22 3\/4 in.; Private Collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3579,"featured_media":967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69108],"tags":[69179],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pilgrimage","tag-pilgrimage_6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/1927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}