The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity
In this annotated translation and study of an early fourteenth-century Japanese devotional picture scroll set, Royall Tyler illuminates the complex relationships between medieval Japanese religion and politics, text, and art. The Kasuga Gongen genki (The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity) mingles text and painting on silk to tell the tale of miraculous events at the Kasuga shrine in Nara, a site favored by the dominant Fujiwara clan for centuries. The work's values are aristocratic, but the text sheds light on the syncretic nature of the era's religious practices, allowing Tyler to collapse the distinction between high and low forms of medieval Ja…
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- ISBN: 978-0-231-53476-5
- EAN: 9780231534765
- Produktnummer: 22592487
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1990
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'656 KB
- Abbildungen: 23 b&w illustrations
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