ANONYMOUS (16TH CENTURY) A Shinto Mandala of the Four Deities of Mount Koya Muromachi period (1333-1573), 16th centuryProperty of another ownerANONYMOUS (16TH CENTURY)A Shinto Mandala of the Four Deities of Mount Koya Muromachi period (1333-1573), 16th centuryOf ink, colors, and gold on silk; below a bundled up curtain sit the figures of four kami on daises in front of tripartite screens: above are Kariba Myojin and Niu Myojin, shown here as courtiers, with Kariba in Japanese-style court robes and Niu in robes modeled after court garments of the Tang dynasty; below are Kehi Myojin, portrayed as a lady holding a whisk, and the youthful Miyajima Myojin, with his hair drawn up in loops, playing a biwa; below the kami sit a pair of lion dogs, and below them a pair of black and white foxes, now barely discernible; now mounted on a panel 34 x 15 3/4in (86.3 x 40.1cm)For a similar example, see Mandala of the Four Deities of Mt. Koya in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Rosemarie and Leighton Longhi 1999.262