Explaining Pictures : : Buddhist Propaganda and Etoki Storytelling in Japan / / Ikumi Kaminishi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Kaminishi, Ikumi,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.) :; color & b/w illus.

Early Japanese Buddhism was patronized by the literate classes and remained a prerogative of the elite until the end of the twelfth century. With the fiscal and political decline of its aristocratic patrons, the Buddhist establishment turned increasingly to lay commoners for financial support, using...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part One The Early Practice of Etoki (late 10th–mid-12th centuries)
• 1. Etoki in History
• 2. Deciphering the Founder of Japanese Buddhism
• Part Two Pure Land Buddhism and Etoki (late 12th–14th centuries)
• 3. Deciphering Pure Land Imagery
• 4. Etoki as a Pure Land Method of Proselytization
• Part Three Images of Itinerant Etoki (14th–16th centuries)
• 5. Itinerant Etoki: Solicitors of Buddhism
• 6. Deciphering the Quasi-Religious Etoki Performer
• Part Four Women and Sacred Mountains (17th–19th centuries)
• 7. Kumano Images and Propaganda for Women
• 8. Deciphering Mountain Worship
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index