Imagery Of The Orchid Pavilion Gathering Visualizing Tokugawa Cultural Networks
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Imagery Of The Orchid Pavilion Gathering Visualizing Tokugawa Cultural Networks
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Author : Kazuko Kameda-Madar
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-10-04
Imagery Of The Orchid Pavilion Gathering Visualizing Tokugawa Cultural Networks written by Kazuko Kameda-Madar and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-04 with Art categories.
This book investigates the diverse visual representations of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering produced during the Edo period Japan.
The Red Thread
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Author : Bernard Faure
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1998-10-26
The Red Thread written by Bernard Faure and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-10-26 with Religion categories.
Is there a Buddhist discourse on sex? In this innovative study, Bernard Faure reveals Buddhism's paradoxical attitudes toward sexuality. His remarkably broad range covers the entire geography of this religion, and its long evolution from the time of its founder, Xvkyamuni, to the premodern age. The author's anthropological approach uncovers the inherent discrepancies between the normative teachings of Buddhism and what its followers practice. Framing his discussion on some of the most prominent Western thinkers of sexuality--Georges Bataille and Michel Foucault--Faure draws from different reservoirs of writings, such as the orthodox and heterodox "doctrines" of Buddhism, and its monastic codes. Virtually untapped mythological as well as legal sources are also used. The dialectics inherent in Mahvyvna Buddhism, in particular in the Tantric and Chan/Zen traditions, seemed to allow for greater laxity and even encouraged breaking of taboos. Faure also offers a history of Buddhist monastic life, which has been buffeted by anticlerical attitudes, and by attempts to regulate sexual behavior from both within and beyond the monastery. In two chapters devoted to Buddhist homosexuality, he examines the way in which this sexual behavior was simultaneously condemned and idealized in medieval Japan. This book will appeal especially to those interested in the cultural history of Buddhism and in premodern Japanese culture. But the story of how one of the world's oldest religions has faced one of life's greatest problems makes fascinating reading for all.
Ancient And Early Medieval Chinese Literature Vol 2
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-10-10
Ancient And Early Medieval Chinese Literature Vol 2 written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
At last here is the long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide focusing exclusively on Chinese literature from ca. 700 B.C.E. to the early seventh century C.E. Alphabetically organized, it contains no less than 1095 entries on major and minor writers, literary forms and "schools," and important Chinese literary terms. In addition to providing authoritative information about each subject, the compilers have taken meticulous care to include detailed, up-to-date bibliographies and source information. The reader will find it a treasure-trove of historical accounts, especially when browsing through the biographies of authors. Indispensable for scholars and students of pre-modern Chinese literature, history, and thought. Part Two contains S to Xi.
Behind The Brushstrokes
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Author : Seow Hwa Khoo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Behind The Brushstrokes written by Seow Hwa Khoo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Calligraphers categories.
Finally - a comprehensive study of Chinese calligraphy aimed at those who do not read Chinese but valuable for any reader seeking insight into the evolution of Chinese characters, as well as the philosophy of Chinese calligraphy and the lives of the great Chinese calligraphers. 'If you have always wanted to know what Chinese calligraphy is about, this is the book' - The Straits Times
Gas Mask Nation
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Author : Gennifer Weisenfeld
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023-02-24
Gas Mask Nation written by Gennifer Weisenfeld and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-24 with Art categories.
"Gas Mask Nation explores Japanese daily life during the widespread culture of civil defense that emerged through fifteen years of war, beginning with Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1931 and only ending with Japan's decisive defeat in WWII. This fifteen-year period involved intense social mobilization and the militarization of citizens. As in nearly every war since the invention of the airplane, surveillance, secrecy, and physical safety became visual symbols of national preparedness and anxiety. Everybody was vulnerable, always. And everybody had a role to play. Prevailing scholarship tends to portray the war years in Japan as a landscape of privation where consumer and popular culture were suppressed under the massive censorship of the war machine. Weisenfeld claims otherwise: while not denying the horrors of war, she shows that pleasure, desire, wonder, creativity, and humor were all still abundantly present. Even amidst the fear, tasty caramels were sold to children with paper gas masks as promotional giveaways, and popular magazines featured everything from attractive models in the latest civil defense fashions to futuristic wartime weapons. Gas Mask Nation examines the multilayered construction of an anxious yet perversely pleasurable culture of civil air defense through a diverse range of art works and media including experimental and documentary photographs, newsreels, popular magazine illustrations, advertising, cartoons, and state propaganda"--
Ma Alas In The Making
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Author : Michelle C. Wang
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-12-18
Ma Alas In The Making written by Michelle C. Wang and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-18 with Art categories.
This book examines the Maṇḍala of Eight Great Bodhisattvas during the Tibetan (786–848) and post-Tibetan Guiyijun (848–1036) periods at Dunhuang, focusing on the intersections between political authority, religious praxis, and visual language.
Authentic Replicas
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Author : Hsueh-man Shen
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2018-10-31
Authentic Replicas written by Hsueh-man Shen and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-31 with History categories.
As belief in the Buddha grew and his teachings were transmitted across Asia, Buddhist images, scriptures, and relics were duplicated and reduplicated to satisfy the needs of increasing numbers of the faithful. Yet how were these countless copies of sacred objects able to retain their authenticity and efficacy? Authentic Replicas explores how Buddhists in medieval China (seventh to twelfth centuries) solved this conundrum through the use of traditional methods of replication such as stamping, mold casting, and woodblock printing to create objects that fulfilled the spiritual aspirations of those who possessed them. Setting aside Western notions about the relative value of copies versus the “original,” the book posits Buddhist ideas on what imbues an object with credibility and authority and offers fresh insights into the ways authenticity was represented and reproduced in the Chinese Buddhist context. Each section of the volume focuses on an area of artistic output to provide readers with a thorough grasp of the theological concepts underpinning each act of duplication. Part I looks at the replication of sutras to clarify how the spiritual value of a handwritten sutra differed from a printed one. In Part II, clay tablets, woodblock prints, silk paintings, and cave murals are examined to trace iconographic lineages and uncover the divine identity in each new replica. The chapters in Part III describe in detail the copying of the Buddha’s bodily relics and the endlessly repeated votive act of burying these in stupas. Of particular significance is the visual and textual vocabulary used on reliquaries to persuade adherents to believe in the actual presence of the Buddha concealed inside. Deftly weaving together data and research from several disciplines, including Buddhist studies, archaeology, and art history, Authentic Replicas vividly conveys how replication lay at the heart of Buddhist worship in medieval China, offering a new understanding of how religious belief guided the artistic output of an entire age.
The Aura Of Confucius
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Author : Julia K. Murray
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-25
The Aura Of Confucius written by Julia K. Murray and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-25 with Art categories.
This groundbreaking study highlights the importance of images within Confucianism and to a shrine-tomb for Confucius's buried robe and cap.
Hinges
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Author : Julia M. White
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Hinges written by Julia M. White and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Nanga categories.
Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name organized by the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).
The Borders Of Chinese Architecture
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Author : Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-11
The Borders Of Chinese Architecture written by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-11 with Architecture categories.
An internationally acclaimed expert explains why Chinese-style architecture has remained so consistent for two thousand years, no matter where it is built. For the last two millennia, an overwhelming number of Chinese buildings have been elevated on platforms, supported by pillars, and covered by ceramic-tile roofs. Less obvious features, like the brackets connecting the pillars to roof frames, also have been remarkably constant. What makes the shared features more significant, however, is that they are present in Buddhist, Daoist, Confucian, and Islamic milieus; residential, funerary, and garden structures; in Japan, Korea, Mongolia, and elsewhere. How did Chinese-style architecture maintain such standardization for so long, even beyond ChinaÕs borders? Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt examines the essential features of Chinese architecture and its global transmission and translation from the predynastic age to the eighteenth century. Across myriad political, social, and cultural contexts within China and throughout East Asia, certain design and construction principles endured. Builders never abandoned perishable wood in favor of more permanent building materials, even though Chinese engineers knew how to make brick and stone structures in the last millennium BCE. Chinese architecture the world over is also distinctive in that it was invariably accomplished by anonymous craftsmen. And Chinese buildings held consistently to the plan of the four-sided enclosure, which both afforded privacy and differentiated sacred interior space from an exterior understood as the sphere of profane activity. Finally, Chinese-style buildings have always and everywhere been organized along straight lines. Taking note of these and other fascinating uniformities, The Borders of Chinese Architecture offers an accessible and authoritative overview of a tradition studiously preserved across time and space.