| Zen Buddhist Landscape Arts of Early Muromachi Japan (1336-1573) Contributor(s): Parker, Joseph D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791439100 ISBN-13: 9780791439104 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Asian - General - Religion | Buddhism - Zen (see Also Philosophy - Zen) - Art | History - Medieval |
| Dewey: 700.420 |
| LCCN: 97052581 |
| Series: Suny Series, Buddhist Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.9" W x 8.95" (0.87 lbs) 302 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Cultural Region - Japanese - Ethnic Orientation - Japanese - Religious Orientation - Buddhist |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |