Figure 1. A depiction of the River Chart (河圖)

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Figure 2. The first page of the preface to Ekikyō chokkai, a Japanese version of Zhang Juzheng’s Yijing zhijie

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Figure 3. A page focusing on the Heng 恆 hexagram (number 31)

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Figure 4. Frontispiece to the Dharani Sutra. Dated 975. Woodblock-printed sutra mounted as a handscroll; ink on paper

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Figure 5a. Lotus Sutra Frontispiece. Circa 1150–1162 (?), Southern Song dynasty

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Figure 5b. Lotus Sutra Frontispiece—Detail of the “three grasses and two trees”

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Figure 6. Prince Shōtoku at Age Two. Circa 1292, Kamakura period

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Figure 7a. Southern Song Lotus Sutra—Frontispiece to the Lotus Sutra

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Figure 7b. Southern Song Lotus Sutra—Publisher’s colophon

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Figure 8. Kōen; Bodhisattva Jizō (Kshitigarbha), Kamakura, Japan, 1249. H. 301/8 in. (76.6 cm)

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