Koyasan Senju S Works Of Art 1 200 Years After K Kai
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Japan And Her Exhibits At The Panama Pacific International Exhibition 1915
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Author : Hakurankwai kyokwai, Tokyo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1915
Japan And Her Exhibits At The Panama Pacific International Exhibition 1915 written by Hakurankwai kyokwai, Tokyo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1915 with Japan categories.
Mount Fuji
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Author : H. Byron Earhart
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2015-07-15
Mount Fuji written by H. Byron Earhart and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-15 with Religion categories.
Illustrated with color and black-and-white images of the mountain and its associated religious practices, H. Byron Earhart's study utilizes his decades of fieldwork—including climbing Fuji with three pilgrimage groups—and his research into Japanese and Western sources to offer a comprehensive overview of the evolving imagery of Mount Fuji from ancient times to the present day. Included in the book is a link to his twenty-eight minute streaming video documentary of Fuji pilgrimage and practice, Fuji: Sacred Mountain of Japan. Beginning with early reflections on the beauty and power associated with the mountain in medieval Japanese literature, Earhart examines how these qualities fostered spiritual practices such as Shugendo, which established rituals and a temple complex at the mountain as a portal to an ascetic otherworld. As a focus of worship, the mountain became a source of spiritual insight, rebirth, and prophecy through the practitioners Kakugyo and Jikigyo, whose teachings led to social movements such as Fujido (the way of Fuji) and to a variety of pilgrimage confraternities making images and replicas of the mountain for use in local rituals. Earhart shows how the seventeenth-century commodification of Mount Fuji inspired powerful interpretive renderings of the "peerless" mountain of Japan, such as those of the nineteenth-century print masters Hiroshige and Hokusai, which were largely responsible for creating the international reputation of Mount Fuji. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, images of Fuji served as an expression of a unique and superior Japanese culture. With its distinctive shape firmly embedded in Japanese culture but its ethical, ritual, and spiritual associations made malleable over time, Mount Fuji came to symbolize ultranationalistic ambitions in the 1930s and early 1940s, peacetime democracy as early as 1946, and a host of artistic, naturalistic, and commercial causes, even the exotic and erotic, in the decades since.
Japanese Mandalas
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Author : Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 1998-11-01
Japanese Mandalas written by Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis 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 1998-11-01 with Design categories.
The first broad study of Japanese mandalas to appear in a Western language, this volume interprets mandalas as sanctified realms where identification between the human and the sacred occurs. The author investigates eighth- to seventeenth-century paintings from three traditions: Esoteric Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism, and the kami-worshipping (Shinto) tradition. It is generally recognized that many of these mandalas are connected with texts and images from India and the Himalayas. A pioneering theme of this study is that, in addition to the South Asian connections, certain paradigmatic Japanese mandalas reflect pre-Buddhist Chinese concepts, including geographical concepts. In convincing and lucid prose, ten Grotenhuis chronicles an intermingling of visual, doctrinal, ritual, and literary elements in these mandalas that has come to be seen as characteristic of the Japanese religious tradition as a whole. This beautifully illustrated work begins in the first millennium B.C.E. in China with an introduction to the Book of Documents and ends in present-day Japan at the sacred site of Kumano. Ten Grotenhuis focuses on the Diamond and Womb World mandalas of Esoteric Buddhist tradition, on the Taima mandala and other related mandalas from the Pure Land Buddhist tradition, and on mandalas associated with the kami-worshipping sites of Kasuga and Kumano. She identifies specific sacred places in Japan with sacred places in India and with Buddhist cosmic diagrams. Through these identifications, the realm of the buddhas is identified with the realms of the kami and of human beings, and Japanese geographical areas are identified with Buddhist sacred geography. Explaining why certain fundamental Japanese mandalas look the way they do and how certain visual forms came to embody the sacred, ten Grotenhuis presents works that show a complex mixture of Indian Buddhist elements, pre-Buddhist Chinese elements, Chinese Buddhist elements, and indigenous Japanese elements.
A Text Book Of Colloquial Japanese
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Author : Rudolf Lange
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1903
A Text Book Of Colloquial Japanese written by Rudolf Lange and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1903 with Japanese language categories.
Faith And Power In Japanese Buddhist Art 1600 2005
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Author : Patricia J. Graham
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2007-09-30
Faith And Power In Japanese Buddhist Art 1600 2005 written by Patricia J. Graham 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 2007-09-30 with Art categories.
Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art explores the transformation of Buddhism from the premodern to the contemporary era in Japan and the central role its visual culture has played in this transformation. Although Buddhism is generally regarded as peripheral to modern Japanese society, this book demonstrates otherwise. Its chapters elucidate the thread of change over time in the practice of Buddhism as revealed in temple worship halls and other sites of devotion and in imagery representing the religion’s most popular deities and religious practices. It also introduces the work of modern and contemporary artists who are not generally associated with institutional Buddhism and its canonical visual requirements but whose faith inspires their art. The author makes a persuasive argument that the neglect of these materials by scholars results from erroneous presumptions about the aesthetic superiority of early Japanese Buddhist artifacts and an asserted decline in the institutional power of the religion after the sixteenth century. She demonstrates that recent works constitute a significant contribution to the history of Japanese art and architecture, providing evidence of Buddhism’s compelling presence at all levels of Japanese society and its evolution in response to the needs of new generations of supporters.
The Three Jewels
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Author : Edward Kamens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Three Jewels written by Edward Kamens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Literary Criticism categories.
Twin Ma Alas Of Vairocana In Japanese Iconography
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Author : Ryūjun Tajima
language : en
Publisher:
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Twin Ma Alas Of Vairocana In Japanese Iconography written by Ryūjun Tajima and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The Japan Year Book
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Author : Takenobu Yoshitarō
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
The Japan Year Book written by Takenobu Yoshitarō and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with Japan categories.
Includes the sections, "who's who in japan", "business directory", etc.
Chikubushima
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Author : Andrew Mark Watsky
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2004
Chikubushima written by Andrew Mark Watsky and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Art categories.
In this meticulous and lucid study, Andrew Watsky keenly illustrates how private belief and political ambition influenced artsitic production at the intersection of institutional Buddhism and Shinto during this tumultuous period of rapid and radical political, social, and aesthetic changes. He offers substantial conclusions not only about the specific site, but also, more broadly, about the nature of art production in Japan and how perceptions of the sacred shaped the concerns and actions of the secular rulers ... Watsky has had unique access to the island, and many of the images included here have not previously been published. -- Book Jacket.
Living Images
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Author : Robert H. Sharf
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2001
Living Images written by Robert H. Sharf and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
The essays in this volume focus on the historical, institutional, and ritual context of a number of Japanese Buddhist paintings, sculptures, calligraphies, and relics?some celebrated, others long overlooked.