The Seven Fortunes and the Sev

Title: The Seven Fortunes and the Sev
Category: Arts & Humanities
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The Seven Fortunes and the Sev

A significant work of Japanese art that is of particular interest is the hand scrolls The Seven Fortunes and the Seven Misfortunes by Maruyama Okyo of the Edo period. These scrolls by Okyo are a pictorial explanation of the real-life blessings and evils that, according to Buddhist philosophy, result from previous Karma (Mason 280). The Seven Fortunes and the Seven Misfortunes is comprised of three scrolls totaling 150 feet in length by 12 1/4 inches high. For the purpose …showed first 75 words of 1679 total…

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