32 drawings on paper that are folded into book form. Images are of a female, either alone or with another person. If present, the other person is smaller than that of the main female. The cover has Japanese characters on a gray and black background. In poor condition with loose binding and worm holes throughout. The creator is Tani Buncho, a Japanese painter who was born in 1763 and died in 1840 or 1841 in what is now Tokyo.
The main female figure depicts Kannon, the goddess of mercy, who personifies compassion.Kannon is the most popular and beloved bodhisattva in Japan. Kannon is the Japanese adaptation of the Chinese goddess Guanyin, who herself was an adaptation of the Indian bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. Kannon is not a Buddha, but a Bodhisattva, a being who is able to achieve Nirvana but delays doing so through compassion for suffering beings.
