| Many works, in which each Juniten deity was drawn as a standing figure on a pair of folding screens with six panels, remain, and these were used in order to guard dojo such as Denpo Kanjo (the consecration for the Transmission of the Dharma), an important ritual in Esoteric Buddhism. |
十二天各尊を立像として六曲屏風一双に表わした遺品は数多く残っており、これらは密教の重要な儀式である伝法灌頂の道場などを守護する目的で使用された。 |