Stamped Images of the Wisdom King Fud (Acala) 14th-15th century Japan Repetition of the name of a Buddhist deity, whether through incantation or inscription, was a common act of devotion among the faithful. One of the most common examples is the practice is the incessant reciting of the phrase “Namu Amida Butsu” (Homage to Amitabha Buddha) as a means of accruing karmic merit. Similarly, creating or sponsoring multiple stamped or printed images of Buddhist deities dates back to the earliest stages of Buddhism in Japan. The terms for individually “stamped Buddhas” (inbutsu ) and the larger sheets of “printed Buddhas” (suribotoke , also pronounced shbutsu) are often used interchangeably today. Here we have an example of one hundred images of the Wisdom King Fud My printed on a single sheet, produced by using a carved woodblock with a row of ten Fud images, and stamping ten rows one atop the other. (There is also a precedent for creating large sheets with one-hundred or more imag