Explaining pictures : Buddhist propaganda and etoki storytelling in Japan /

Kaminishi, Ikumi, 1957-

Explaining pictures : Buddhist propaganda and etoki storytelling in Japan / Ikumi Kaminishi. - Honolulu : University of Hawai�i Press, �2006. - 1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : illustrations (some color), map

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-239) and index.

Introduction -- PART 1. EARLY PRACTICE OF ETOKI (LATE 10TH-MID 12TH CENTURIES) -- Etoki in History -- Deciphering the Founder of Japanese Buddhism -- PART 2. PURE LAND BUDDHISM AND ETOKI (LATE 12TH-14TH CENTURIES) -- Deciphering the Picture of Pure Land -- Etoki as Pure Land Buddhist Method of Proselytization -- PART 3. IMAGES OF ITINERANT ETOKI (14TH-16TH CENTURIES) -- Itinerant Etoki, Solicitors of Buddhism -- Deciphering the Quasi-Religious Etoki Performer -- PART 4. WOMEN AND SACRED MOUNTAINS (17TH-19TH CENTURIES) -- Kumano Images and Propaganda of Kumano for Women -- Deciphering Mountain Worship.

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Beginning with the claim that the popularisation of Buddhism in the medieval period was a phenomenon of visual culture, this book reexamines the history of medieval Japanese Buddhism. It treats Buddhist art as religious propaganda and pictorial storytelling as a form of popular culture in medieval Japan.


Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.


Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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In English.

9780824844493 0824844491

10.21313/9780824844493 doi

22573/ctt225skp9 JSTOR


Geschichte 1000-1900


Buddhist preaching--Japan.
Storytelling--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
Buddhist painting--Japan.
Narrative painting, Japanese.
Pr�edication--Bouddhisme--Japon.
Art de conter--Aspect religieux--Bouddhisme.
Peinture bouddhique--Japon.
Peinture narrative japonaise.
Buddhist painting.
Buddhist preaching.
Narrative painting, Japanese.
Storytelling--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
Buddhismus
Bild
Predigt
Religi�ose Malerei
Wanderprediger
Buddhistisk m�alarkonst.
Japansk m�alarkonst.
Japanskt historiem�aleri.
ART / Asian


Japan.
Japan.


Electronic books.

BQ5325.J3 / K36 2006

294.3/437

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