@article{oai:tobunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00006582,
 author = {宮, 次男 and Miya, Tsugio},
 issue = {298},
 journal = {美術研究, The bijutsu kenkyu : the journal of art studies},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {This illustrated scroll in a private collection treats the miraculous episodes concerning Kșitigarbha, represented in the main image of the Kondaiji in Shiga Prefecture. It is a one-volume work with two illustrations and two corresponding text paragraphs.
     The content is as follows: When the father of TAIRA no Moromichi, a police board official, was attacked by warriors of a nearby district and was in a difficult battle, the Kșitigarbha image, which had been worshiped as the patron deity of his people's clan, transfigured itself into the form of an apprentice priest and appeared on the battlefield. There he collected arrows shot by the enemy and supplied them to the force of Moromichi's father, thus leading them to victory. The words “Yatori Jizō” in the title of the scroll means “Arrow-collecting Kșitigarbha”. After this event Moromichi's father and his people's clan built a new temple, the Kondaiji, for the Kșitigarbha, according to the story.
     This legend is also in Konjaku Monogatari, a collection of folklorical stories compiled in the Heian Period. The present Kșitigarbha image in the temple has a dated dedicatory inscription of the third year of Jōō Era (1224) and is registered as an important cultural property. In the Muromachi Period, the temple was widely known as a sacred spot related to the miraculous power of Kșitigarbha.
     The first illustration starts with the scene of the riverside battle where a young priest collects arrows shot by the enemy, and the following scene in the same illustration depicts a Kșitigarbha image with an arrow shot into its forehead being worshiped by people in a chapel behind the house of Moromichi's father. The second illustration is the scene of the new temple for the Kșitigarbha on a hill, where a large crowd worships the image.
     This scroll has an inscription saying that it was dedicated by a person by the name of Takaharu SASAKI in the second year of Kyōtoku Era (1453). The quality of the painting is not necessarily high, but it is interesting in that the rendition of the human figures is close in style and taste to the painting of Mitsunobu TOSA and that it thus suggests the stylistic background of his art. This fact adds to the art historical significance of the work.},
 pages = {1--12},
 title = {矢取地蔵縁起について},
 year = {1975}
}