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Nearby floats a transparent bowl with a vase containing a willow branch. The represented subject is the Leaf or Lotus Leaf Guanyin (一葉觀音 or 蓮葉觀音) that hints at the illusory nature of this world, such as the reflection of the moon in water, which may echoed in the shape of the round panel. Below is an inscription that transcribes lines concerning the relationship between illusion and reality by Yongda, abbot of Shaolin Si monastery. At far left is a short inscription that dates the carving and raising of the pictorial stone from which this rubbing was taken to the 4th month in 1304 through the agency of the Yuan dynasty monk Zhili.","remarks":null}],"datebegin":1304,"sortnumber":"1958  149y","published_date":"2026-02-11 12:18:04.223237","objectid":57557,"dimensions":"image: 70.5 x 40.4 cm. (27 3/4 x 15 7/8 in.)\r\n91 x 45.4 cm. (35 13/16 x 17 7/8 in.)","on_view":false}