@article{oai:tobunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00006431,
 author = {関口, 正之 and Sekiguchi, Masayuki},
 issue = {340},
 journal = {美術研究, The bijutsu kenkyu : the journal of art studies},
 month = {Nov},
 note = {The two paintings in the Tomioka Art Museum, Tokyo, which are catalogued as “Lotus Sutra Paintings” I and II are panel paintings from ritual palanquins of Usa Shrine, Ōita Prefecture. Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties took photographs of the nine panels which adorned the inside of three ritual palanquins owned by the shrine in 1933 and preserves them. The paintings in question correspond to two of them. Each of the set of three ritual palanquins was equipped with three panel paintings and the “Lotus Sutra Painting” I based on the twelfth chapter of the Lotus Sutra is from the palanquin No.1, and II with the scene of Śākyamuni's sermon at the Vulture Peak is from No. 3. Either of the two panels is the middle one of the respective triplet. Four panels of the total nine are still kept in the shrine and the author discnssed that they must have been executed in Kyoto in the Ōei Era at the beginning of the fifteenth century in No. 289 of the Bijutsu Kenkyu. The panels in the Tomioka Art Museum are two of the five which the author could not locate then. According to the shrine records. I was brought from Kyoto to the shrine in the twenty-seventh year of Ōei Era (1420) and II in the next year, both being the works by a painter known as “Kaga no Kami of the Painters' Bureau.” The silk used for them is the same twill as the one used for the panels still kept in the shrine.
     The compositions and colours are about the same as the ones painted in the Tokuji Era in the early fourteenth century, which are now owned by Usa Shrine and the Hosomi Family, Osaka. The lines and forms have stiffer feeling compared with the Tokuji version and the colours are slightly darker. They are considerably faithful copies of the Tokuji version. The fact that the ground is twill, that the colours are brilliant, and that the facial expression of the deities are mild rather than solemn, reflects the secular character of the artist. Thus, these paintings are typical examples of Buddhist works by experts of secular painting.},
 pages = {38--40},
 title = {図版解説　富岡美術館蔵法華経絵（二幅）},
 year = {1987}
}