c. 1710
Lion Scroll (left panel of diptych)
Hanabusa ItchōJapanese, 1652 - 1724
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These Japanese scrolls depict a Chinese Buddhist story of a lioness. On the sacred mountain Tientai, she hurled her newborn cubs from a stone bridge into a mountain waterfall as a rite of initiation that tested their courage and endurance.
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