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==Selected Objects in the Shôsôin Collection==
==Selected Objects in the Shôsôin Collection==
*Brush, ink stick, and blue silk cord used in the [[752]] eye-opening ceremony of the Great Buddha at Tôdai-ji
*Brush, ink stick, and blue silk cord used in the [[752]] eye-opening ceremony of the Great Buddha at Tôdai-ji
*Shoes said to have been worn by Emperor Shômu to the eye-opening ceremony.
*Ranjatai, a large and famous piece of incense wood, today about five feet in length, and weighing roughly 25 pounds. The Court granted permission for pieces to be cut off by [[Ashikaga Yoshimasa]] in [[1465]] and by [[Oda Nobunaga]] in [[1574]]. Nobunaga then gave portions of what he had taken to [[Sen no Rikyu|Sen no Rikyû]] and [[Tsuda Sogyu|Tsuda Sôgyû]] as gifts.<ref>Morgan Pitelka, ''Spectacular Accumulation'', University of Hawaii Press (2016), 45-46, 183n14.</ref>
*Ranjatai, a large and famous piece of incense wood, today about five feet in length, and weighing roughly 25 pounds. The Court granted permission for pieces to be cut off by [[Ashikaga Yoshimasa]] in [[1465]] and by [[Oda Nobunaga]] in [[1574]]. Nobunaga then gave portions of what he had taken to [[Sen no Rikyu|Sen no Rikyû]] and [[Tsuda Sogyu|Tsuda Sôgyû]] as gifts.<ref>Morgan Pitelka, ''Spectacular Accumulation'', University of Hawaii Press (2016), 45-46, 183n14.</ref>
*Various textiles, including some from Persia or other parts of Central Asia. Many of these were produced specifically for the eye-opening ceremony for the Great Buddha at Tôdai-ji, or for memorial ceremonies performed in [[757]] on the first anniversary of the death of Emperor Shômu. Along with items in the collection of [[Horyu-ji|Hôryû-ji]], these are believed to be the oldest extant textiles in the world which have never been buried in a tomb.<ref name=tnmexhibit/>
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