 Ogoe

In the past the portraits were painted directly onto the walls of the Enkaku-ji Buddhist Temple in Okinanawa as murals but it is believed that owing to damage caused by fires to the temple, in 1717 the court artist to the Ryukyu Kingdom, Soki Yamaguchi, converted all the portraits to wall hung scrolls or kakejiku.Ten are confirmed to have existed through monochrome photos taken by Kamakura Yoshitarō; all known ogoe were destroyed during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.