1951, Kwannon du temple Chuguji Japan 50 Yen Brown

1951, Kwannon du temple Chuguji Japan 50 Yen Brown

Text: Japan 50 Yen
Condition: Ø =USED/ Cancelled

Title:   Nyoirin Kannon

Face value:     50

Stamp Currency:       Yen

Country/area:                     Japan

Year:   1951

Set:     1951

Stamp number in set:           1

Basic colour:           Brown

Exact colour:           Chocolate brown

Usage:                           Definitives

Type:               Stamp

Theme:          

Stamp subject:           Nyoirin Kannon

Michel number:         536

Yvert number:                        469

Scott number:                        

Stanley Gibbons number:   

Printing office:            

Perforation:    13 x 13½

Watermark:    

Paper:            

Printing:             Recess

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Chūgū-ji (中宮寺?) is a temple in Nara Prefecture, Japan, that was founded as a nunnery in the seventh century by Shōtoku Taishi. Located immediately to the northeast of Hōryū-ji, its statue of Miroku and Tenjukoku mandalaare National Treasures.

Chūgūji was once the palace of Hashihito, mother of Shōtoku Taishi. After her death it was converted into a temple. Originally standing three hundred metres to the east, it was moved to its present location in the Muromachi period.[1] Chūgū-ji is one of three nunneries in Yamato whose chief priestesses were imperial princesses.[2] The site of Chūgū-ji has been designated a Historic Site, and the Edo period Omotegomon has been registered as a cultural property.

The camphor wood statue of Miroku (菩薩半跏像?) is a National Treasure dating from the Asuka period. Formerly painted, it is finished in lacquer.

In 622, after the death of Shōtoku Taishi, his consort Tachibana-no-Oiratsume commissioned the Tenjukoku ShūchōMandala (天寿国繍帳?). The embroidery of heaven and eternal life, together with one hundred tortoises and accompanying text, was restored in the Edo period by combining the surviving fragments with parts of a Kamakura period replica.