Explaining Pictures: Buddhist Propaganda And Etoki Storytelling in JapanUniversity of Hawaii Press, 1.1.2006 - 246 sivua Early Japanese Buddhism patronized the literate classes and remained a prerogative of the elite until the end of the twelfth century. With the fiscal and political decline of its aristocratic patrons, the Buddhist establishment turned to lay commoners and women--two groups previously excluded from the benefits of the Dharma--for financial support, using paintings to accommodate its new, and often subliterate, audiences. This type of preaching, known as etoki (pictorial decipherment), helped bridge the worlds of esoteric Buddhism and lay practice and reveals much about the role of art in the context of didactic storytelling and proselytization. Beginning with the provocative claim that the popularization of Buddhism in the medieval period was a phenomenon of visual culture, Explaining Pictures reexamines the history (and historiography) of medieval Japanese Buddhism. With theoretical sophistication and a full appreciation of the power of imagery to convey and control religious meaning, it investigates a range of aspects of etoki, including the particularly active role of itinerant nuns as well as the visual hagiography of the reputed founder of Japanese Buddhism, the pictorial projections of Buddhist paradise and hell, and the explanation, through visual imagery, of sacred mountains. |
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Etoki in History | 19 |
Deciphering the Founder of Japanese Buddhism | 31 |
Pure Land Buddhism and Etoki LATE 12TH14TH CENTURIES | 55 |
Deciphering Pure Land Imagery | 57 |
Etoki as a Pure Land Method of Proselytization | 74 |
Images of Itinerant Etoki 14TH16TH CENTURIES | 101 |
Itinerant Etoki Solicitors of Buddhism | 103 |
Women and Sacred Mountains 17TH19TH CENTURIES | 135 |
Kumano Images and Propaganda for Women | 137 |
Deciphering Mountain Worship | 165 |
Conclusion | 193 |
Notes | 197 |
Bibliography | 225 |
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Explaining Pictures: Buddhist Propaganda and Etoki Storytelling in Japan Ikumi Kaminishi Rajoitettu esikatselu - 2006 |
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Amida Buddha Ariyori Ashikuraji audience Biography of Prince Bodhisattva century Chitei Chūsei colors on paper court cult decipher deities depicts Dōjōji emaki emakimono Emperor engi etoki narrative etoki performers etoki preachers faith FIGURE Fujiwara Fujiwara no Yorinaga handscrolls hanging scrolls Hōnen Hōnen shōnin Hōryūji icon images ink and colors Ippen itinerant etoki Iwakuraji Japan Japanese Buddhism Jizō Kamakura kanjin Kannon Karukaya kenkyū Kumano bikuni Kumano Ten-Worlds Mandala Kyoto legend Mandala medieval period meditation missionaries monk Mount Kōya mountain worship nenbutsu Nihon Onba Osaka Oyama painting performed etoki Pictorial Biography pictorial sermons Picture Hall pilgrimage popular preaching prefecture priest Prince Shōtoku propaganda proselytization Pure Land Buddhism religious ritual Ryōnin sacred salvation sanjo scene screen Shakamuni Shinran Shinto Shitennōji Shoten Shōtoku Taishi Shrine story storytelling Taima Taima Mandala Tateyama Tateyama Hell Tateyama Mandala Tateyama mountain Tateyama shinkō Thirty-two Artisans Scroll tion Tokyo women Yorinaga Yüzü Nenbutsu Zenkōji
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