Mandala of Wakamiya of Kasuga Shrine (Kasuga wakamiya mandara), 春日若宮曼荼羅, Nanbokuchō period (1336?92), early 14th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink, color, gold, and cut gold on silk, Image: 29 3/4 in. ? 15 in. (75. 6 ? 38. 1 cm), Paintings, Seated on a pink and white lotus blossom and enclosed in a golden disc, Ame no oshikumone, the deity of Wakamiya Shrine at Kasuga, floats ethereally through space. Placed within the visual framework of a Buddhist deity and attired in the clothing of a noble youth, he holds a sword with his right hand, an allusion to his Buddhist counterpart Monju (Sanskrit: Manjusri), the bodhisattva of wisdom, whose attributes include a sword with which to cut through the illusions of the unenlightened mind