Todaiji Temple Offerings Book

Japanese: 東大寺献物帳 - とうだいじけんもつちょう

A general term for the catalogues that were submitted by Empress Komyo to the Vairocana Buddha of Todaiji Temple, listing Emperor Shomu's belongings. There are five of them: "Kokuchi Chinpocho" (Cho of National Treasures) dated June 21, 756, and "Shozo Yakucho" (Cho of Various Medicines) dated July 26, 756, "Byōbu Kasencho" (Cho of Screens and Flowers), "Daishōō Shinsekicho" (Cho of Daishoō Shinseki) dated June 1, 758, and "Fujiwara no Kimi Shinseki Byōbucho" (Cho of Screens and Flowers). All of them are elegantly bound on scrolls of white hemp paper, and the calligraphy is thought to be modelled on the style of Wang Xizhi. Stored in the Shosoin Repository.

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Japanese:

聖武天皇の遺愛品を，光明皇后が東大寺の盧舎那仏に奉献されたとき，その品目を記して納めた目録の総称。天平勝宝8 (756) 年6月 21日の『国家珍宝帳』および同時の『種々薬帳』，同年7月 26日の『屏風花氈帳』，天平宝字2 (758) 年6月1日の『大小王真跡帳』，同年7月 21日の『藤原公真跡屏風帳』の5種がある。いずれも白麻紙の巻子に高雅な表装を施し，その書も王羲之の書風にならったとみられる名跡。正倉院蔵。

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