Zen Buddhist landscape arts of early Muromachi Japan (1336-1573)
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Zen Buddhist landscape arts of early Muromachi Japan (1336-1573)
（SUNY series in Buddhist studies）
State University of New York Press, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index
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Description
Examining inscriptions on landscape paintings and related documents, this book explores the views of the "two jewels" of Japanese Zen literature, Gido Shushin (1325-1388) and Zekkai Chushin (1336-1405), and their students. These monks played important roles as advisors to the shoguns Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358-1408) and Yoshimochi (1386-1428), as well as to major figures in various michi or Ways of linked verse, the No theatre, ink painting, rock gardens, and other arts. By applying images of mountain retreats to their busy urban lives in the capital, these Five Mountain Zen monks provoke reconsiderations of the relation between secular and sacred and nature and culture.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Chinese Religious and Cultural Context
2. Japanese Five Mountains Zen and the Poem-and-Painting Scrolls
3. The East Asian Religious Context for Cultural Practice
4. Zen Buddhist Readings of the Landscape: The Hermit at Court
5. Buddhist Illusion and the Landscape Arts
6. Buddhist Playfulness and the Landscape Arts
Conclusion
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index
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