Flowing Traces : : Buddhism in the Literary and Visual Arts of Japan /

Flowing Traces : : Buddhism in the Literary and Visual Arts of Japan / / ed. by James H. Sanford, Masatoshi Nagatomi, William R. LaFleur.

According to the contributors to this volume, the relationship of Buddhism and the arts in Japan is less the rendering of Buddhist philosophical ideas through artistic imagery than it is the development of concepts and expressions in a virtually inseparable unity. By challenging those who consider r...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Foard, James H.,
Grotenhuis, Elizabethten,
Hoff, Frank,
Kaufman, Laura S.,
LaFleur, William R.,
Matisoff, Susan,
Ruch, Barbara,
Shimizu, Yoshiaki,
Tyler, Royall,
HerausgeberIn:
LaFleur, William R.,
Nagatomi, Masatoshi,
Sanford, James H.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1992
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 137
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Physical Description:1 online resource (290 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • One. Symbol and Yiigen: Shunzei’s Use of Tendai Buddhism
  • Two. Nature, Courtly Imagery, and Sacred Meaning in the Ippen Hijiri-e
  • Three. Prefiguration and Narrative in Medieval Hagiography: The Ippen Hijiri-e
  • Four. Coping with Death: Paradigms of Heaven and Hell and the Six Realms in Early Literature and Painting
  • Five. Seeing and Being Seen: The Mirror of Performance
  • Six. “The Path of My Mountain”: Buddhism in Nō
  • Seven. Chújóhime: The Weaving of Her Legend
  • Eight. Multiple Commemorations: The Vegetable Nehan of Itō Jakuchū
  • Nine. Holy Horrors: The Sermon-Ballads of Medieval and Early Modern Japan
  • Contributors
  • Index

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