Color on silk portrait of Emperor Godaigo

“The image of Emperor Godaigo" is a Buddhist painting portrait of Emperor Godaigo drawn in the period of the Northern and Southern Courts. The production was supervised by Hiroshin Bunkanbo, an artist monk and gojiso of Emperor Godaigo. After his death, he opened his eyes on September 20 (October 23, 1339) of the 57-th (15th) Buddhist service. On April 7, 1900, it was designated as an important cultural property. As the Emperor, not the Cloistered Emperor, he was bestowed with Yugi Kanjo, the highest kanjo (ritual of possession) of the Shingon sect by Monkan Shonsho, and integrated with Kongo-satta, a Bodhisattva who remains the emperor of the secular world, and is one of the three deities Iconography that became a symbol of the integration of royal dharma, Buddhism, and Jingi under Sanjatakusen (Sanjatakusen) written on it. After the end of the Civil War of the Northern and Southern Courts, he went to Seijoko-ji Temple (Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture) by the 12th Yugyo Shonin, who was Godaigo's cousin and founder of Jimune Chuko. During the Sengoku period, it became the object of worship of the Jishu sect at that time, and models were made. It is important not only in art history and religious history but also in political history because it is an example directly related to the theory of sovereignty during the Kenmu reign. It is said that he demonstrated the legitimate sovereignty as a patron of Shingon Esoteric Buddhism, who succeeded his father, Emperor Gouda, and showed the sovereignty in harmony between politics and religion as in the reign of Prince Shotoku.