Hoke-kyō (Saddharma-puṇḍarīka sūtra), with each character enthroned inside a stupa, Vol.3; 5 一字宝塔法華経 巻第三・巻第五いちじほうとうほけきょう かんだい3・かんだい5
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{i=>[Saddharmapuṇḍarīka-sūtra, Fahua jing, Hoke kyō], content=>[Each character of the Lotus Sutra (Skt. , ; Ch. , ; J. , ) is written in gold and enshrined in its own jeweled pagoda. Shinzei Nyūdō (dates unknown) had this created with a prayer to be reborn in the Pure Land in 1163 (Chōkan 1). The frontispiece features a painting expressing the sutra’s teachings in visual form that is copied from a woodblock-printed edition of the Lotus Sutra brought to Japan from Song-dynasty China.]}
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National Institutes for Cultural Heritage
The National Institutes for Cultural Heritage (NICH) comprise four National Museums (Tokyo National Museum, Kyoto National Museum, Nara National Museum, and Kyushu National Museum) and two National Research Institutes for Cultural Properties (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, and Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties), as well as the International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI) in Sakai City, for a total of seven institutions.
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July 20, 2026