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Mahayana: Zakah: Sangha Jewels of Refuge
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Gold and [Silver] Plated
Keko [Ritual] Basket
[Openwork] Hosoge Flower Design
[Buddhist] ritual services,
priests scattering [flowered] petals
made of [paper].
Keko baskets birthed to [hold] these ritual papered petals.
[existing] examples lie within
Shosoin Treasury
suggestions of [baskets] originally
woven [of bamboo].
[Beginning] from-in the Heian Period, however, keko baskets became highly decorative. [designs] and techniques exhibited in this keko basket
are the finest existing today.
all [representative] to me ...
[of her]
Engraved [openwork] designs of hosoge flowers
vines growing in and out from the [center] of this bronze basket
three different directions [all across] & through entire surfacings.
bottom surfaces all carving enduring suki-bori method
creating creating creating
[three-dimensionality].
Fine [lines] engravened onto flowered centers.
entire basketfulls [gilded];
important parts
hosoge flowers and vines
[having been dressed] in silver- plates over gold.
silver-plates over gold
sixteen keko baskets owned by
Jinsho-ji Temple
classifications of [duality] based upon their elaborate designs.
based [upon her] elaborate designs
Khamu... [she was] thought...
to have been [made]... in the late-Heian Period.
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