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Preserving the dharma : Hōzan Tankai and Japanese Buddhist art of the early modern era
- Title
- Preserving the dharma : Hōzan Tankai and Japanese Buddhist art of the early modern era / John M. Rosenfield.
- Author
- Rosenfield, John M.
- Publication
- Princeton, New Jersey P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology Princeton University [2015]
- Princeton, New Jersey Distributed by Princeton University Press [2015]
- ©2015
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- Description
- 199 pages : mostly color illustrations, color maps; 26 cm
- Summary
- "In this beautifully illustrated book, eminent art historian John Rosenfield explores the life and art of the Japanese Buddhist monk Hozan Tankai (1629-1716). Through a close examination of sculptures, paintings, ritual implements, and primary documents, the book demonstrates how the Shingon prelate's artistic activities were central to his important place in the world of late-seventeenth-century Japanese Buddhism. At the same time, the book shows the richness of early modern Japanese Buddhist art, which has often been neglected and undervalued.Tankai was firmly committed to the spiritual disciplines of mountain Buddhism-seclusion, severe asceticism, meditation, and ritual. But in the 1680s, after being appointed head of a small, run-down temple on the slopes of Mount Ikoma, near Nara, he revealed that he was also a gifted artist and administrator. He embarked on an ambitious campaign of constructing temple halls and commissioning icons, and the Ikoma temple, soon renamed Hōzanji, became a vibrant center of popular Buddhism, as it remains today. He was a remarkably productive artist, and by the end of his life more than 150 works were associated with him.A major reconsideration of a key artistic and religious figure, Preserving the Dharma brings much-needed attention to an overlooked period of Japanese Buddhist art"--Publisher's website.
- Series Statement
- Tang Center lecture series
- Uniform Title
- Tang Center lecture series.
- Alternative Title
- Hōzan Tankai and Japanese Buddhist art of the early modern era
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-170) and index.
- Contents
- Birth and Training -- Sacred Mount Ikoma -- Head Priest -- Sculpture -- Pictures -- Eminence -- Appendix A: Hozanji archive -- Appendix B: Shingon priests.
- Call Number
- JQF 16-213
- ISBN
- 0691163979
- 9780691163970
- LCCN
- 2014937006
- OCLC
- 877364700
- Author
- Rosenfield, John M., author.
- Title
- Preserving the dharma : Hōzan Tankai and Japanese Buddhist art of the early modern era / John M. Rosenfield.
- Publisher
- Princeton, New Jersey P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology Princeton University [2015]
- Distributor
- Princeton, New Jersey Distributed by Princeton University Press [2015]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Tang Center lecture seriesTang Center lecture series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-170) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JQF 16-213