Efficacious Underworld : : The Evolution of Ten Kings Paintings in Medieval China and Korea /

Efficacious Underworld : : The Evolution of Ten Kings Paintings in Medieval China and Korea / / Cheeyun Lilian Kwon.

The Ten Kings hanging scrolls at Tokyo's Seikadō Bunko Art Museum are among the most resplendent renderings of the Buddhist purgatory extant, but their origin and significance have yet to be fully explored. Cheeyun Kwon unfurls this exquisite set of scrolls within the existing Ten Kings paintin...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Kwon, Cheeyun Lilian,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 120 color, 80 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • EVOLUTION OF TEN KINGS PAINTINGS IN CHINA
  • Introduction
  • 1. Images of the Ten Kings: Early Traces
  • 2. Transitional Link from Handscroll to Individualized Hanging Scrolls: The Former Packard Set
  • 3. Full Efflorescence in Southern Song Ningbo
  • 4. Post-Song Variations
  • THE TEN KINGS CULT IN KORYŎ
  • Introduction
  • 5. Buddhist Rituals and the Ten Kings Paintings in Koryŏ
  • 6. The Scripture on the Ten Kings from Haeinsa (1246)
  • THE TEN KINGS FROM THE SEIKADŌ BUNKO ART MUSEUM
  • 7. Introduction to the Seikadō Ten Kings
  • 8. The Seikadō Ten Kings as Iconic Images
  • 9. Northern Song Figure-Painting Styles in the Seikadō Ten Kings
  • 10. Northern Song Landscape- and Flower-Painting Styles in the Seikadō Ten Kings
  • 11. Ritual Context: Royal Ancestral Worship in the Buddhist Style
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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