Joui Monju　縄衣文殊

KEY WORD :　art history / iconography

Also read Joue Monju (Ch: shengyi wenshu). Lit. rope-robed *Monju 文殊. A pictorial theme found in Daoist and Buddhist paintings *doushakuga 道釈画. During the Yuanfeng 元豊 era (1078-85) in the Northern Song dynasty, Lu Huiqing 呂恵卿, while traveling in the mountain of Wutaishan (Jp: Godaisan 五台山), met a young boy with long hair, wearing a dress made from rushes gama 蒲 and holding a sutra scroll in his right hand. While discussing Buddhist theories, Lu Huiqing was surprised to discover that the boy was Monju, the bodhisattva *bosatsu 菩薩 of wisdom.

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