A. Upper Right B. Upper Left C. Middle Upper Right D. Middle Upper Center E. Middle Upper Left F. Middle Lower Right G. Middle Lower Center H. Middle Lower Left I. Lower Upper Left J. Lower Upper Left K. Lower Right L. Lower Left Full Enlargement Kofuku-ji Mandala Hanging scroll, color on silk Proportions: 96.8 x 38.8 cm Kamakura Period (12th-13th Centuries) Important Cultural Property AK 129 Kyoto National Museum This is one the Kasuga Shrine and Temple Mandalas that depict Kasuga Shrine and Kofuku-ji Temple. This painting is unusual, however, in that it portrays Kofuku-ji Temple as its primary subject. The work depicts Buddhist statues in ink on gold leaf, which adds appropriate brightness to the scene. Although minutely detailed, the overall painting style is magnificant and lavish. The arrangement of Buddhist statues within the painting suggests that this work was painted before the temple fire in 1180, however the painting style reveals that it must have been made in the early Kamakura Period. It may have been painted to record the structure of the temple buildings. As the oldest existing suija-ku (concept of the unification of Shinto and Buddhism) painting, this Kofukuji Mandala is an extremely valuable work.