| Description |
1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Ways to tell a sacred life : hagiographic imagination in medieval Japan -- The lives of the prince : Shōtoku across Asia -- Japanese spirit : a new Buddha for troubled times -- Mapping Shōtoku's tale : cultic identities in place -- The birth of a legend : inscribing Shōtoku at Shitennōji and Hōryūji -- Siting Shōtoku : structuring narrative at Hōryūji |
| Summary |
Plotting the Prince traces the development of conceptual maps of the world created through the telling of stories about Prince Shōtoku (573?-622?), an eminent statesman who is credited with founding Buddhism in Japan. It analyzes his place in the sacred landscape and the material relics of the cult of personality dedicated to him, focusing on the art created from the tenth to fourteenth centuries. The book asks not only who Shōtoku was, but also how images of his life served the needs of devotees in early medieval Japan. Even today Shōtoku evokes images of a half-real, half-mythical figure who embodied the highest political, social, and religious ideals. Taking up his story about four centuries after his death, this study traces the genesis and progression of Shōtoku's sacred personas in art to illustrate their connection to major religious centers such as Shitenno-ji and Hōryū-ji. It argues that mapping and storytelling are sister acts--both structuring the world in subtle but compelling ways--that combined in visual narratives of Shōtoku's life to shape conceptions of religious legitimacy, communal history, and sacred geography. Plotting the Prince introduces much new material and presents provocative interpretations that call upon art historians to rethink fundamental conceptions of narrative and cultic imagery. It offers social and political historians a textured look at the creation of communal identities on both local and state levels, scholars of religion a substantially new way of understanding key developments in doctrine and practice, and those studying the past in general a clear instance of visual hagiography taking precedence over the textual tradition |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Shōtoku Taishi, 574?-622? -- Cult
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Shōtoku Taishi, 574?-622? -- Art
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Shōtoku Taishi, 574?-622? fast |
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Shōtoku Taishi Japan, Prinzregent 574-622 gnd |
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Chōsen Kōgei Kenkyūkai gnd |
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Buddhism -- Japan -- History -- To 1185.
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Buddhist hagiography -- Japan
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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ART -- Asian.
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Buddhism
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Buddhist hagiography
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Cults
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Buddhismus
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Landschaft Motiv
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Heiligenverehrung
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Kunst
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Personenkult
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Japan
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works of art.
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Art
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History
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Art.
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Œuvres d'art.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780824865726 |
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0824865723 |
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9780824871437 |
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082487143X |
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