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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
*Ranjatai, a large and famous piece of incense wood, from which pieces were 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.</ref>
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*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>
    
==References==
 
==References==
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