Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Levine, Gregory P. A., 1963-

Publication

Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2005.

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Details

Description

lii, 444 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map; 27 cm.

Subject

• Daitokuji (Kyoto, Japan)
• Zen art > Japan > Kyoto

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 388-428) and index.

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.

Call Number

*OSM 06-3238

ISBN

0295985402 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005008256
• 9780295985404

OCLC

58728854

Author

Levine, Gregory P. A., 1963-

Title

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

Imprint

Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2005.

Edition

1st ed.

Bibliography

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

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Other Standard Identifier

9780295985404

Research Call Number

*OSM 06-3238