Rights clearance desk for images
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Where this page got its records
7179 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
285 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
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“The Historical Buddha Preaching,” a section from The Illustrated Sutra of Past and Present Karma (Kako genzai inga kyō emaki)
Unidentified artist
mid-8th century · Handscroll section mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Illustrated Frontispiece to the Sutra of Enlightenment through the Accumulation of Merit and Virtue, the So-called Jingoji Sutra
Unrecorded maker
ca. 1150–85 · Handscroll; gold and silver on indigo-dyed paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Illustrated Sutra of Past and Present Karma (Kako genzai inga kyō emaki)
Unidentified artist
late 13th century · Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Illustrated manuscript of the Lotus Sutra, Volume 2
Unidentified artist
ca. 1340 · Accordion-fold book; gold and silver on indigo-dyed mulberry paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Fragment of Vol. 157 of Sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom (Mahaprajnaparamita sutra; Daihannyaharamittakyō) 大般若波羅蜜多経巻第一百五十七
Unidentified artist
1383, sixth month (Eitoku 3) · Woodblock printed book (orihon, accordion-style); ink on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Scene from The Illustrated Sutra of Past and Present Karma (Kako genzai e-inga-kyō; Matsunaga Version)
Unrecorded maker
late 13th century · Handscroll; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Sutra of the Repentance Ritual of Great Compassion (Cibei daochang chanfa), Volume 1
Unrecorded maker
1615 · Woodblock printed book
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Diamond Sutra
Unidentified artist
1620 · Woodblock printed book with handwritten and hand-painted sections
Cleared · Public Domain
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Page from a pattern book for a Uttaradhyayana sutra manuscript
Unrecorded maker
ca. 1675 · Ink on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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After the Victory, from "Illustrated London News"
Richard Principal Leitch (d. 1882)
August 2, 1873 · Wood engraving
Cleared · Public Domain
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
Nine illustrated folios from a Gandavyuha-sutra manuscript
Unrecorded maker
late 11th–early 12th century · Opaque watercolor and ink on talipot palm-leaf folios
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
[321 Views of Classic Cars for Sports Illustrated Article "Beauties of the Past"]
Walker Evans (d. 1975)
August 15, 1960 · Color film transparency
In copyright
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