Word: kakemono
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...faith. The picture will probably be hung in one of the rooms at the Divinity School Library. The gift was accompanied by a letter from which the following is quoted: "Allow me to present through you to the library of the Harvard Divinity School, an old temple hanging picture (kakemono) which I have brought from Japan. The picture is very old and the subject depicted is the Buddhist deity, Senju Korannon, here represented as the type of the Almighty Power. I am happy in placing this treasure of the old faith of the far East in the Harvard School library...