@article{oai:tobunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00006401,
 author = {関口, 正之 and Sekiguchi, Masayuki},
 issue = {333},
 journal = {美術研究, The bijutsu kenkyu : the journal of art studies},
 month = {Sep},
 note = {In No. 317 of the Bijutsu Kenkyū, the author made the assumption that the theme of the bottom half of Scroll 1 was kings celebrating the conception of Queen Mayā, but he revises it in the present article and interprets the scene as Queen Māyā leaving the palace for Lumbini to give birth to Śākyamuni.
     The main questionin in the present part of the article is the discussion of the characteristics of the composition and the pictorial elements in Jikōji hanging scrolls. The Jikōji scrolls measure 120 cm in width, allowing a greater picture plane than do the other hanging scrolls of the same theme. The Jikōji scrolls are almost square in shape but the fact that their width is slightly greater than their length suggests that they were produced after the wall-painting format which decorated the interior of temple buildings but whose examples scarcely reamin to day.
     The characteristic of Scroll 1 is that the scene of the conception of Queen Māyā is not represented only by the queen and a white elephant.  Here the palace of Tușita heaven and the figure of  Prince Siddhārtha himself on the back of the white  elephant are also depicted, as well as the spectacular  procession, which is presumed to be of Queen Māyā,  in the bottom half of the composition.
     The characteristic of Scroll 2 is that, in the bottom half of the painting, Siddhārtha's encounter  outside the palace gates on four directions with the  old, the sick, the dead, and the hardship of birth  is shown: Instead of the commonly seen depiction  of the clergy, the hardship of birth is pictorialized.  In no Buddhist scripture the four hardships of birth,  old age, illness and death are mentioned in this  particular episode from Śākyamuni's life ; nor in  any other pictorial example the four hardships are  represented in this particular scene. 
     From these observations on Scroll 1 and Scroll remain today.
2, the author notes that the painter did not  necessarily conform to the pictorial tradition of the  depiction of this theme. (To be continued.)},
 pages = {11--19},
 title = {尾道市持光寺所蔵釈迦八相図について（四）},
 year = {1985}
}