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Rethinking Asuka Sculpture

A Revised Conception of Buddhist Spread in East Asia, 538-710

Hong Wu (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

268 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-70191-5 (ISBN)

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With its thorough re-evaluation of Asuka-period sculpture and the radical redating it proposes, this book situates Asuka statuary in a very different historical perspective and opens up new possibilities for revising our perceptions of early Japanese history and cultural exchange in East Asia.

In this book, WU Hong deconstructs the prevailing theory of a 100-year Buddhist artistic lag between Asuka Japan and the Chinese mainland. She proposes to radically re-date Asuka statues, such as the famous Hōryūji Kondō Shaka Triad. The new dating opens up possibilities for revising our perceptions of early Japanese history and interchange in East Asia, while also allowing a fresh account of Asuka statuary to emerge.

Proceeding from the revised chronology and emphasizing local processes, this new account brings the growth of Asuka Buddhism into clearer vision and elaborates on heretofore unknown historical details for an enriched understanding of this critical period of East Asian history.

WU Hong, Ph.D. (2020), University of Vienna, is assistant professor of Philosophy of Art and Art History at Fudan University. She has published several articles on East Asian Buddhist art and Chinese art of the medieval period.

Chronology

List of Characters

List of Maps, Tables, and Figures

1 Introduction

1 Reconsidering the Traditional Chronology

2 Shifting from the China-Centered to the Asuka Perspective

3 Structure of the Book

Part 1: The Catalogue

2 Tracing an Organic Stylistic Sequence

1 Group I

2 Group II

3 Group III

4 Group IV

5 Conclusion

Part 2: A Revised Chronology

3 Weighing the Archaeological and Historical Evidence

1 Advent of Buddhist Practice in Japan

2 The East Asian Context

3 Direct Buddhist Contacts with China

4 Opportunity for Rethinking the Chronology

4 Reevaluating Buddhist Art in Korean Three Kingdoms

1 Textual and Archaeological Survey

2 Reconsidering the Fifty-Year Lag between the Korean Three Kingdoms and Chinese Dynasties

3 A History of Korean Three Kingdoms Buddhist Art Historiography

5 A Revised Chronology

1 How the Traditional Chronology Became Established

2 Reconsidering the Anchor Statues

3 The Hōryūji Kondō Shaka Triad: a Close Study

4 A Revised Chronology

Part 3: A New Account of Asuka Buddhism

6 A Tentative Beginning: 550–600

1 Features Neither Continental nor Local

2 Understanding the Earliest Buddhist Sculptors

3 A Hesitant Beginning

7 Vibrant Transformation: 600–650

1 The Shiba Story Continued

2 A Multiplicity of Other Sculptural Modes

3 The Buddhist Boom

8 New Technological Development: 650–710

1 Piece-Mold versus Lost-Wax Methods

2 From the Direct to the Indirect Method

3 Interpreting the Technological Change

9 Conclusion

1 Rethinking Asuka Buddhist Art

2 Looking Forward: the Yakushi Triad and Beyond

Reference Matter

List of Extant Asuka Buddhist Statues

Abbreviations for Catalogue Titles

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture ; 15
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	594 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	90-04-70191-5 / 9004701915
ISBN-13	978-90-04-70191-5 / 9789004701915
Zustand	Neuware