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$Associate Director Matt Hudson with the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation at Northland College uses a device to test water near Friendly Valley Beach as he and Water Resource Specialist Reane Loiselle collect water samples from Lake Superior Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, in Washburn, Wisconsin. (Erin Hooley\/Chicago Tribune\/TNS$

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Associate Director Matt Hudson with the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation at Northland College uses a device to test water near Friendly Valley Beach as he and Water Resource Specialist Reane Loiselle collect water samples from Lake Superior Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, in Washburn, Wisconsin. (Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune/TNS

$Associate Director Matt Hudson with the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation at Northland College uses a device to test water near Friendly Valley Beach as he and Water Resource Specialist Reane Loiselle collect water samples from Lake Superior Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, in Washburn, Wisconsin. (Erin Hooley\/Chicago Tribune\/TNS$

Oct 22, 2021 06:00 AM

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Associate Director Matt Hudson with the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation at Northland College uses a device to test water near Friendly Valley Beach as he and Water Resource Specialist Reane Loiselle collect water samples from Lake Superior Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, in Washburn, Wisconsin. (Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune/TNS

$Seiryu Gongen. Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Image: 35 13\/16 × 17 5\/8 in. (91 × 44.7 cm)Overall with mounting: 68 7\/8 × 24 13\/16 in. (175 × 63 cm)Overall with knobs: 68 7\/8 × 25 7\/8 in. (175 × 65.8 cm). Date: mid-14th century.The Shinto goddess Seiryu Gongen appears here in a domestic interior befitting an aristocratic occupant. She wears courtly vestments and carries a wish-fulfilling jewel (Sanskrit: chintamani) in her right hand. Just outside her chamber stands a young girl to whom she has given a book, the Records of Miraculous Medicine (Koyaku no shirushi bumi). The goddess towers majestically over her young companion. The name Seiryu Gongen can be written in two ways: depending on the characters used, Seiryu means either "pure waterfall" or "blue dragon"; gongen is an honorific title that can mean "god" or "goddess." The goddess was believed originally to have been the titulary deity at Blue Dragon Temple (Chinese: Qinglongsi) in Chang\'an (modern Xian), China. She is said to have been introduced ...$

Nov 04, 2019 07:00 AM

Seiryu Gongen. Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Image:

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Seiryu Gongen. Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Image: 35 13/16 × 17 5/8 in. (91 × 44.7 cm)Overall with mounting: 68 7/8 × 24 13/16 in. (175 × 63 cm)Overall with knobs: 68 7/8 × 25 7/8 in. (175 × 65.8 cm). Date: mid-14th century.The Shinto goddess Seiryu Gongen appears here in a domestic interior befitting an aristocratic occupant. She wears courtly vestments and carries a wish-fulfilling jewel (Sanskrit: chintamani) in her right hand. Just outside her chamber stands a young girl to whom she has given a book, the Records of Miraculous Medicine (Koyaku no shirushi bumi). The goddess towers majestically over her young companion. The name Seiryu Gongen can be written in two ways: depending on the characters used, Seiryu means either "pure waterfall" or "blue dragon"; gongen is an honorific title that can mean "god" or "goddess." The goddess was believed originally to have been the titulary deity at Blue Dragon Temple (Chinese: Qinglongsi) in Chang'an (modern Xian), China. She is said to have been introduced ...

Photo taken Oct. 19, 2015, shows the Buddhist god of fire statute by sculptor Kaikei (active in the late 12th and early 13th centuries) displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The museum will start exhibiting 150 Japanese artworks ...

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Oct 20, 2015 06:00 AM

New York museum to exhibit 150 Japanese artworks

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Photo taken Oct. 19, 2015, shows the Buddhist god of fire statute by sculptor Kaikei (active in the late 12th and early 13th centuries) displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The museum will start exhibiting 150 Japanese artworks ...