Flowing Traces

Buddhism in the Literary and Visual Arts of Japan

James H. Sanford, William R. LaFleur, Masatoshi Nagatomi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

290 Seiten

2014
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-60332-2 (ISBN)

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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 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. Originally published in 1992.
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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction31Symbol and Yugen: Shunzei's Use of Tendai Buddhism162Nature, Courtly Imagery, and Sacred Meaning in the Ippen Hijiri-e473Prefiguration and Narrative in Medieval Hagiography: The Ippen Hijiri-e764Coping with Death: Paradigms of Heaven and Hell and the Six Realms in Early Literature and Painting935Seeing and Being Seen: The Mirror of Performance1316"The Path of My Mountain": Buddhism in No1497Chujohime: The Weaving of Her Legend1808Multiple Commemorations: The Vegetable Nehan of Ito Jakuchu2019Holy Horrors: The Sermon-Ballads of Medieval and Early Modern Japan234Contributors263Index265

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.7.2014
Reihe/Serie	Princeton Legacy Library
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	397 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-691-60332-4 / 0691603324
ISBN-13	978-0-691-60332-2 / 9780691603322
Zustand	Neuware