Excerpt from Temple Treasures of Japan To this later epoch too (middle Fujiwara) belongs the purely native art of that great mystic, Eshin S6zu, whose sublime visions of the luminous Amida and his Angel Musicians required the use of pure gold-leaf in preference to color. In this he may be said to have anticipated the art of the early Sienese. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.