Flowing traces : Buddhism in the literary and visual arts of Japan / edited by James H. Sanford, William R. LaFleur, and Masatoshi Nagatomi.

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Book
Language
English
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1992.
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xii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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East Asian Library - Western Languages PL726.112.B8 F56 1992 Browse related items Request
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        • According to the contributors to this volume, the relationship between 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 religion to be the primary phenomenon and art the secondary arena for the apprehension of religious meanings, these essays reveal the collapse of other dichotomies as.
        • Well. Touching on works produced at every social level, they explore a fascinating set of connections within Japanese culture and move to re-envision such usual distinctions as religion and art, sacred and secular, Buddhism, and Shinto, theory and substance, elite and popular, and even audience and artist. The essays range from visual and literary hagiographies to No drama, to sermon-ballads, to a painting of the Nirvana of Vegetables. The contributors to the volume are.
        • James H. Foard, Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis, Frank Hoff, Laura S. Kaufman, William R. LaFleur, Susan Matisoff, Barbara Ruch, Yoshiaki Shimizu, and Royall Tyler.
        Bibliographic references
        Includes bibliographical references and index.
        Contents
        • Symbol and Yūgen : Shunzei's use of Tendai buddhism / William R. LaFleur
        • Nature, courtly imagery, and sacred meaning in the Ippen Hijiri-e / Laura s. Kaufman
        • Prefiguration and narrative in medieval hagiography : the Ippen Hijiri-e / James H. Ford
        • Coping with death : Paradigms of heaven and hell and the six realms in early literature and painting / Barbara Ruch
        • Seeing and being seen : the mirror of performance / Frank Hoff
        • "The path of my mountain" : Buddhism in Nō / Royall Tyler
        • Chūjōhime : the weaving of Her legend / Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis
        • Multiple commemorations : the Vegetable Nehan of Itō Jakuchū / Yoshiaki Shimizu
        • Holy horrors : the sermon-ballads of medieval and early modern Japan / Susan Matisoff.
        ISBN
        • 0691073651 ((alk. paper))
        • 9780691073651 ((alk. paper))
        LCCN
        91029243
        OCLC
        24215157
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