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Author : Elizabeth Horton Sharf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015032537469
Author : Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Calligraphy, Zen
ISBN : UVA:X000572255
Author : Gregory P. A. Levine
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0295985402
The Zen Buddhist monastery Daitokuji in Kyoto has long been revered as a cloistered meditation centre, a repository of art treasures, and a wellspring of the "Zen aesthetic." Gregory Levine's Daitokuji unsettles these conventional notions with groundbreaking inquiry into the significant and surprising visual and social identities of sculpture, painting, and calligraphy associated with this fourteenth-century monastery and its enduring monastic and lay communities. The book begins with a study of Zen portraiture at Daitokuji that reveals the precariousness of portrait likeness; the face that gazes out from an abbot's painting or statue may not be who we expect it to be or submit quietly to interpretation. By tracing the life of Daitokuji's famed statue of the chanoyu patriarch Sen no Riky-u (1522-91), which was all but destroyed by the ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-98) but survived in Rash-omon-like narratives and reconstituted sculptural forms, Levine throws light upon the contested status of images and their mytho-poetic potential. Levine then draws from the seventeenth-century journal of K-ogetsu S-ogan, Bokuseki no utsushi, to explore practices of calligraphy connoisseurship at Daitokuji and the pivotal role played by the monastery's abbots within Kyoto art circles. The book's final section explores Daitokuji's annual airings of temple treasures not merely as a practice geared toward preservation but also as a space in which different communities vie for authority over the artistic past. An epilogue follows the peripatetic journey of the monastery's scrolls of the 500 Luohan from China to Japan, to exhibition and partial sale in the West, and back to Daitokuji. Illuminating canonical and heretofore ignored works and mining a trove of documents, diaries, and modern writings, Levine argues for the plurality of Daitokuji's visual arts and the breadth of social and ritual circumstances of art making and viewing within the monastery. This diversity encourages reconsideration of stereotyped notions of "Zen art" and offers specialists and general readers alike opportunity to explore the fertile and sometimes volatile nexus of the visual arts and religious sites in Japan.
Author : Jiang Wu
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199393138
"This book tells the story of Chinese Zen master Yinyuan's journey from China to Japan amid the turmoil of the Manchu conquest of China. Despite tremendous difficulties, he persuaded the Shogun to build for him a new monastery (Manpukuji) in Kyoto and founded his own tradition called Obaku"--
Author : Jiang Wu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199895564
Enlightenment in Dispute is the first comprehensive study of the revival of Chan Buddhism in seventeenth-century China. Focusing on the evolution of a series of controversies about Chan enlightenment, Jiang Wu describes the process by which Chan reemerged as the most prominent Buddhist establishment of the time. He investigates the development of Chan Buddhism in the seventeenth century, focusing on controversies involving issues such as correct practice and lines of lineage. In this way, he shows how the Chan revival reshaped Chinese Buddhism in late imperial China. Situating these controversies alongside major events of the fateful Ming-Qing transition, Wu shows how the rise and fall of Chan Buddhism was conditioned by social changes in the seventeenth century.
Author : Albert Welter,Steven Heine,Jin Y. Park
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438490908
This volume focuses on Chinese Chan Buddhism and its spread across East Asia, with special attention to its impacts on Korean Sŏn and Japanese Zen. Zen enthralled the scholarly world throughout much of the twentieth century, and Zen Studies became a major academic discipline in its wake. Interpreted through the lens of Japanese Zen and its reaction to events in the modern world, Zen Studies incorporated a broad range of Zen-related movements in the East Asian Buddhist world. As broad as the scope of Zen Studies was, however, it was clearly rooted in a Japanese context, and aspects of the "Zen experience" that did not fit modern Japanese Zen aspirations tended to be marginalized and ignored. Approaches to Chan, Sŏn, and Zen Studies acknowledges the move beyond Zen Studies to recognize the changing and growing parameters of the field. The volume also examines the modern dynamics in each of these traditions.
Author : Rosina Buckland
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004249417
In Painting Nature for the Nation: Taki Katei and the Challenges to Sinophile Culture in Meiji Japan, Rosina Buckland offers an account of the career of the painter Taki Katei (1830–1901). Drawing on a large body of previously unpublished paintings, collaborative works and book illustrations by this highly successful, yet neglected, figure, Buckland traces how Katei transformed his art and practice based in modes derived from China in order to fulfil the needs of the modern nation-state at large-scale exhibitions and at the imperial court.
Author : Phyllis Granoff,Koichi Shinohara
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780774859806
This collection offers a challenge to any simple understanding of the role of images by looking at aspects of the reception of image worship that have only begun to be studied, including the many hesitations that Asian religious traditions expressed about image worship. Written by eminent scholars of anthropology, art history, and religion with interests in different regions (India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia), this volume takes a fresh look at the many ways in which images were defined and received in Asian religions. Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation Book on Buddhism and Comparative Religion
Author : Galit Aviman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351536110
In Zen Buddhism, the concept of freedom is of profound importance. And yet, until now there has been no in-depth study of the manifestation of this liberated attitude in the lives and artwork of Edo period Zen monk-painters. This book explores the playfulness and free-spirited attitude reflected in the artwork of two prominent Japanese Zen monk-painters: Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1768) and Sengai Gibon (1750-1837). The free attitude emanating from their paintings is one of the qualities which distinguish Edo period Zen paintings from those of earlier periods. These paintings are part of a Zen ink painting tradition that began following the importation of Zen Buddhism from China at the beginning of the Kamakura period (1185-1333). In this study, Aviman elaborates on the nature of this particular artistic expression and identifies its sources, focusing on the lives of the monk-painters and their artwork. The author applies a multifaceted approach, combining a holistic analysis of the paintings, i.e. as interrelated combination of text and image, with a contextualization of the works within the specific historical, art historical, cultural, social and political environments in which they were created.
Author : Patricia Ann Berger,Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art,Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0824816625
Author : Ellen P. Conant
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0824829379
The complex and coherent development of Japanese art during thecourse of the nineteenth century was inadvertently disrupted by apolitical event: the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Scholars of both thepreceding Edo (1615-1868) and the succeeding Meiji (1868-1912) erashave shunned the decades bordering this arbitrary divide, thus creatingan art-historical void that the former view as a period of waningtechnical and creative inventiveness and the latter as one threatenedby Meiji reforms and indiscriminate westernization and modernization.Challenging Past and Present, to the contrary, demonstrates that theperiod 1840-1890, as seen progressively rather than retrospectively, experienced a dramatic transformation in the visual arts, which in turnmade possible the creative achievements of the twentieth century
Author : Robert H. Sharf,Elizabeth Horton Sharf
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0804739897
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.
Author : Hiroshi Kanazawa
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015034677867
Author : Yasuichi Awakawa
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015010996059
The collection of ink paintings reproduced here brings Zen directly to the eye. Wild spontaneity, irreverence and humor; conciseness that transforms familiar things into raw, essential forms; use of space to suggest, simultaneously, limitless depth and nothing at all - these paintings by both priest-painters and professional artists bear witness to Zen in a way that words cannot. At the same time, this book reveals the magnificently varied effects that can be achieved with Chinese ink and brush. THE AUTHOR: Born in 1902 and trained as an economist, the late Yasuichi Awakawa wrote polifically and lectured throughout Japan and in Europe about Zen painting. He was professor of economics at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1644 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : OSU:32435056453632
