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   Portable Shrine with an Image of Kannon

   19th century

   Japanese

   Signed: Sh?ami Katsuyoshi.

   The doors are inscribed: “With benevolent eyes he looks at all living things, his blessing is like the sea immeasurable.”

   Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

    

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