Daitokuji : the visual cultures of a Zen monastery / Gregory P.A. Levine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levine, Gregory P. A., 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zen art--Japan--Kyoto.

Zen art.

Daitokuji (Kyoto, Japan).

Japan--Kyoto.

Physical Description:

lii, 444 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 27 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2005]

Contents:

Telling tales: art history's Daitokuji

Borrowed bodies: abbot portraiture at Daitokuji

The contested corpus of Chan/Zen portraiture

The founder's statue at Kōrin'in

The frailty of likeness

Making, breaking, and remembering: the Sanmon gate and statue of Sen No Rikyū

The gate of memory

Telling the tale

The "crucified" portrait

Tracing the calligraphic past at Daitokuji

Writing a calligraphic category: the creation of "Bokuseki"

Myriad calligraphers, multifarious traces: reading Kōgetsu Sōgan's Bokuseki no utsushi

Faking the masters: calligraphy forgery and Bokuseki no utsushi

Taking in the breeze: airing the visual and textual past at Daitokuji

Mushiboshi at Daitokuji

Airings, exhibitions, and feuds

Repairing the temple, filling the museum: travels of the Daitokuji Five hundred Luohan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-428) and index.

ISBN:

0295985402

OCLC:

58728854

Publisher Number:

9780295985404