Brahma’s Net Sutra (Bonmō-kyō)

Maker unknown · Ink on paper, 25 sheets; purple-paper cover painted in gold and silver; quartz roller ends · Nara period · Shōsō-in Treasures, Middle Section 34

Begin at the start of the scroll: flowers and landscape painted in gold and silver on purple paper. The official text calls this cover and frontispiece extremely precious as work of the Nara period.