Zen Buddhist landscape arts of early Muromachi Japan (1336-1573) /

• Main Author: Parker, Joseph D., 1956-
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, �1999.
• Series: SUNY series in Buddhist studies.
• Subjects: 1185-1600; Zen arts > Japan.; Arts, Japanese > Kamakura-Momoyama periods, 1185-1600.; Landscape painting, Japanese > Kamakura-Momoyama periods, 1185-1600.; Zen literature > Japan > History and criticism.; Buddhist arts > Japan.; Buddhism and the arts > Japan.; ART > Reference.; ART > Performance.; Arts, Japanese > Kamakura-Momoyama periods.; Buddhism and the arts.; Buddhist arts.; Landscape painting, Japanese > Kamakura-Momoyama periods.; Zen arts.; Zen literature.; Japan.; Electronic books.; Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 302 pages) : illustrations.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-291) and index.
• ISBN: 0585068399; 9780585068398

"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."--Jacket.