Section Describing Maitreya's Entreaty, from Chapter 1 of the Lotus Sutra (Hokke-kyō)

Handscroll; ink on paper with silver and gold-flecked top and bottom margins

Handscroll; pale blue and purple clouds on paper; gold and silver frontispiece

Third of three handscrolls; ink on paper; punctuation: light red dots; reciting: dark red

Handscroll; ink on paper with sunago (gold and silver flakes); gold guide lines

Framed handscroll fragment; ink and color on paper

Book page now mounted as an album leaf in "shikishi" (poem-slip) format

Second of three handscrolls; ink on paper; punctuation: light red dots; reciting: dark red

Unmounted handscroll fragment; ink on paper

Handscroll; ink on paper with gold and silver flakes and cut-gold guidelines

First of three handscrolls; ink on paper; punctuation: light red dots; reciting: dark red

Three handscrolls; ink on paper; punctuation: light red dots; reciting: dark red

Handscroll fragment mounted as a hanging scroll; ink on dyed paper decorated with ink, color, silver pigment, scattered gold- and silver-leaf, and cut-gold ruled lines