A hanging scroll of the Kasuga Mandara (春日曼荼羅), a mandala depicting the Buddhist deities thought to manifest as the local Kasuga deities at Kasuga Taisha Shrine (春日大社) 

Color on silk dating to the 14th century from the collection of Hōzanji Temple (宝山寺) in the Monzenmachi neighborhood of Ikoma, Nara Prefecture

Image from the Ikoma City Digital Museum

Kasuga Deer Mandala (J., Kasuga Shika Mandara), Nara National Museum

Hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk H 76.5, W 40.5 Kamakura period　 14th century

Kasuga Deer Mandala, Mandara Shika, 1399, Art Institute of Chicago: Asian Art

Kate S. Buckingham Endowment Size: 125.6 x 51.1 cm (49 1/2 x 20 1/8 in.) Medium: Ink, colors, and gold on silk

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/12032/

蓮の花に畏まる女性 多くの女性的な感受性が蓮の花の上で審美性を高めたという。 香りと護法の関係。 音楽的に幻視をひきおこす、象徴的な香りについて。 香りを聴く佇まいの図象譜。 Women obey respectfully to the lotus flower Many of feminine sensitivity enhanced the aesthetics on the lotus flower. Relationship of scent and Goho. Musically cause vision, iconic fragrance for. Figure elephant score of appearance to listen to the scent. (Kasuga wakamiya mandara: Nanbokuchō period (1336–92) early 14th century Japan

A hanging scroll of the Kasuga Miya Mandara (春日宮曼荼羅), a mandala depicting the Buddhist deities manifesting as the local Kasuga deities at Kasuga Taisha Shrine (春日大社) in Nara, the sacred grounds of which are visible below

Color on silk dating to the 14th century from the collection of the Seikadō Bunko Art Museum (静嘉堂文庫美術館) in Tokyo

Image from "Shintō: The Sacred Art of Ancient Japan" edited by Victor Harris, published by the British Museum Press. 2001, page 167

An elaborate Kasuga Miya Mandara Reliquary Shrine (春日宮曼荼羅舎利厨子) featuring the sacred landscape of Kasuga Shrine (present-day Kasuga Taisha Grand Shrine (春日大社)) in Nara flanked by the wrathful deities Fudō Myōō (不動明王) and Aizen Myōō (愛染明王)

Lacquered wood with color dating to 1479 from the collection of the Tokyo National Museum (東京国立博物館)

A hanging scroll of the Kasuga Miya Mandara (春日宮曼荼羅), a mandala depicting the four principal shrine structures of Kasuga Shrine (present-day Kasuga Taisha Grand Shrine (春日大社)) in Nara, with the Sanskrit syllables of the Buddhist divinities understood to be manifesting as the local deities within the shrines hovering above and sacred Mount Mikasa looming in the background

Color on silk dating to the Kamakura period (1185-1333) from the collection of the Nezu Museum (根津美術館) in Tokyo

A hanging scroll of the Kasuga Shaji Mandara (春日社寺曼荼羅), a mandala depicting an idealized layout of the symbiotically related Kasuga Taisha Shrine (春日大社) above and Kōfukuji Temple (興福寺) below in Nara, with the Buddhist deities thought to manifest as the local Kasuga deities standing along Mount Kasuga at the top

Ink & colors on silk dating to the 14th century, from the collection of the Nara National Museum