BENRIDO Decorative Picture Scroll, "Hell Scroll"
BENRIDO Decorative Picture Scroll, "Hell Scroll"
BENRIDO Decorative Picture Scroll, "Hell Scroll"

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BENRIDO Decorative Picture Scroll, "Hell Scroll"

The Benrido Atelier is a COLLOTYPE workshop based in Kyoto, Japan and has mastered the art style since 1887. Their beautiful designs make for amazing Japanese g… read more
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The Benrido Atelier is a COLLOTYPE workshop based in Kyoto, Japan and has mastered the art style since 1887. Their beautiful designs make for amazing Japanese gifts, decorations and souvenirs. The printing requires the best materials, with quality ink and handmade Japanese washi paper, and experienced craftsmen are the only ones able to properly design the prints - Each individual step requires experience and eye for detail to create beautiful tones and to properly balance the pigment.


Hell Scroll (????????????, jigokuz??ji) is a scroll depicting seven out of the sixteen lesser hells presented in Kiseky?? ("Sutra of the World Arising"). Six of the paintings are accompanied by text, which all begin with the phrase "There is yet another hell", following a description of what the sinners depicted did to end up in this particular hell.

The seven hells depicted are:

the Hell of Excrement (ja: ?????????)

the Hell of Measures (?????????)

the Hell of the Iron Mortar (?????????)

the Hell of the Flaming Rooster (?????????)

the Hell of the Black Sand Cloud (?????????)

the Hell of Pus and Blood (?????????)

the Hell of Foxes and Wolves (???????????? ???????????????)

It is considered likely that the scroll corresponds to the Paintings of the Six Paths, commissioned by Emperor Goshirakawa in the 12th century. This handscroll was preserved in Daish??-in in Higashiokubo, Tokyo until the Meiji period, when it came into the hands of the Hara family of Kanagawa, later ending up in the possession of the Japanese government.

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Description

The Benrido Atelier is a COLLOTYPE workshop based in Kyoto, Japan and has mastered the art style since 1887. Their beautiful designs make for amazing Japanese gifts, decorations and souvenirs. The printing requires the best materials, with quality ink and handmade Japanese washi paper, and experienced craftsmen are the only ones able to properly design the prints - Each individual step requires experience and eye for detail to create beautiful tones and to properly balance the pigment.


Hell Scroll (????????????, jigokuz??ji) is a scroll depicting seven out of the sixteen lesser hells presented in Kiseky?? ("Sutra of the World Arising"). Six of the paintings are accompanied by text, which all begin with the phrase "There is yet another hell", following a description of what the sinners depicted did to end up in this particular hell.

The seven hells depicted are:

the Hell of Excrement (ja: ?????????)

the Hell of Measures (?????????)

the Hell of the Iron Mortar (?????????)

the Hell of the Flaming Rooster (?????????)

the Hell of the Black Sand Cloud (?????????)

the Hell of Pus and Blood (?????????)

the Hell of Foxes and Wolves (???????????? ???????????????)

It is considered likely that the scroll corresponds to the Paintings of the Six Paths, commissioned by Emperor Goshirakawa in the 12th century. This handscroll was preserved in Daish??-in in Higashiokubo, Tokyo until the Meiji period, when it came into the hands of the Hara family of Kanagawa, later ending up in the possession of the Japanese government.

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