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Flowing traces : Buddhism in the literary and visual arts of Japan / edited by James H. Sanford, William R. LaFleur, and Masatoshi Nagatomi.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Princeton Legacy Library
- Princeton legacy library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japanese literature--To 1868--History and criticism.
- Japanese literature.
- Buddhism in literature.
- Buddhism and art--Japan.
- Buddhism and art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 p.)
- Edition:
- Course Book
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1992]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One. Symbol and Yiigen: Shunzei's Use of Tendai Buddhism / LaFleur, William R.
- Two. Nature, Courtly Imagery, and Sacred Meaning in the Ippen Hijiri-e / Kaufman, Laura S.
- Three. Prefiguration and Narrative in Medieval Hagiography: The Ippen Hijiri-e / Foard, James H.
- Four. Coping with Death: Paradigms of Heaven and Hell and the Six Realms in Early Literature and Painting / Ruch, Barbara
- Five. Seeing and Being Seen: The Mirror of Performance / Hoff, Frank
- Six. "The Path of My Mountain": Buddhism in Nō / Tyler, Royall
- Seven. Chújóhime: The Weaving of Her Legend / Grotenhuis, Elizabethten
- Eight. Multiple Commemorations: The Vegetable Nehan of Itō Jakuchū / Shimizu, Yoshiaki
- Nine. Holy Horrors: The Sermon-Ballads of Medieval and Early Modern Japan / Matisoff, Susan
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691632674
- 0691632677
- 9780691603322
- 0691603324
- 9781400862948
- 1400862949
- OCLC:
- 884013110
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