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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS. 259
No. 596.
The inscription given on the opposite page is a copy,
on a reduced scale, from one written in black upon the
back of an ancient kakimono, one of a set of eight in
the Bowes Collection illustrating the Buddhist Inferno, a
full description of which appears in Keramic Art of Japan.
Commencing with the upper character of the right-hand
column, and taking the inscription throughout in this manner,
it reads as follows :
Jiu-o YE-ZO.
Yu-ra-san, So-gen-ji jiu-motsu.
Hio -HO NO SHI-SHU,
Yamatoya Yasubioye,
Mikawaya Shinroku,
SiiAKu Kai-jo Shin-shi.
Jiu ICHI GATSU JIU KUN-CHI.
KuNI-MOTO, chichi tame KO-YO Kl-FUSU KCRE O.
The portrait of Jiuo — the property of the temple of Sogenji
Yurasan.
This is mounted and given by Yamatoya Yasubioye and
Mikawaya Shinroku as a mark of filial duty to their father
(who is now dead, and to whom the posthumous name Shaku
Kaijo Shinshi is given), in their native land.
The igth day of the nth month.
