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品名（中）	Nigatsudō明天燃烧
品名（英）	Nigatsudō Burned Sutra
入馆年号	1981年，1981.75
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Unidentified artist
创作年份	公元 734 - 公元 754
创作地区
分类	绘画（Paintings）
尺寸	整体 with mounting: 41 3/4 × 26 1/2 英寸 (106 × 67.3 厘米) 整体 with knobs: 41 3/4 英寸 × 28 5/8 英寸 × 1 英寸 (106 × 72.7 × 2.5 厘米) 图像: 9 7/8 × 21 1/4 英寸 (25.1 × 54 厘米)
介绍（中）	这部《花Garland经》（Kegonkyō）的碎片来自744年捐赠给奈良寺的一套60个手卷。寺庙的NigatsudōHall被大火烧毁，幸存的部分今天被称为Nigatsud 333; Burned Sutras（Nigatsud´yakegy 333;）。经文烧焦的边缘，捕捉到了佛教认为一切都是无常的想法，使这些遗迹变得特别珍贵这些碎片也代表了一些现存最早的使用珍贵材料抄写佛教文本的例子。宗教著作的复制被认为是对所有参与该项目的人的精神奖励，包括捐赠者、抄写员和准备材料的工匠，因此在这一时期进行了大量的复制这些字是用一种特殊的"楷书"（kaisho）书写的，书写速度快，平衡均匀，每一笔都清晰可见，以最大限度地提高可读性。粗斜下的笔画和其他笔画末端夸张的钩子给人一种装饰和优雅的感觉。
介绍（英）	This fragment of the Flower Garland Sutra (Kegonkyō) comes from a set of sixty handscrolls donated to the temple Tōdaiji in Nara in 744. Damaged by a fire at the temple’s Nigatsudō Hall, the surviving sections are known today as Nigatsudō Burned Sutras (Nigatsudō yakegyō). The scripture’s singed edges, capturing the Buddhist idea that everything is impermanent, has made these remnants especially prized. Such fragments also represent some of the earliest surviving examples of the practice of transcribing Buddhist texts using precious materials. The copying of religious writings was thought to confer spiritual merit on all those involved in the project, including the donors, scribes, and craftsmen who prepared the materials, and so was done in great numbers during this period. The characters are written in a special form of “regular script” (kaisho) that, while written quickly, is balanced and even, with each stroke clearly visible to maximize legibility. The thickened downward diagonal strokes and exaggerated hooks at the ends of other strokes lend a sense of ornamentation and elegance.