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.

"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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Chinese Religious and Cultural Context 23
• 2. Japanese Five Mountains Zen and the Poem-and-Painting Scrolls 51
• 3. The East Asian Religious Context for Cultural Practice 109
• 4. Zen Buddhist Readings of the Landscape: The Hermit at Court 135
• 5. Buddhist Illusion and the Landscape Arts 155
• 6. Buddhist Playfulness and the Landscape Arts 183.