E-toki Buddhist Picture Telling
E-toki (picture deciphering, or picture explaining) refers to a Japanese Buddhist practice of using an emaki (hand picture, a painted hand scroll) or picture halls (rooms with pictures either painted onto the walls, or containing a series of hanging scrolls) to explain a Buddhist principal.
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