Japanese mask (iron and lacquer, with a silk head covering sewn on the upper edges) representing Jikokuten, guardian deity of the East in Buddhist cosmology. Inscribed by Myōchin Muneakira; dated 1745. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Lion of Chaeronea
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A blog dedicated to classical antiquity, poetry, and the visual arts. All translations of Greek and Latin are my own unless otherwise noted.