#白山三社権現

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A painted image of the Shirayama Sansha Gongen (白山三社権現), three deities enshrined upon the three peaks of Mount Hakusan understood to be local incarnations of universal Buddhist deities represented by the Sanskrit seed syllables in Siddhaṃ script above

Color on silk dating to the Kamakura period (1185-1333) from the collection of Shirayama Hime Jinja Shrine (白山比咩神社) in Hakusan City, Ishikawa Prefecture

Image from "Shintō: The Sacred Art of Ancient Japan" edited by Victor Harris, published by the British Museum Press. 2001, page 179