Transmitting the forms of divinity : early Buddhist art from Korea and Japan

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Comparing Korean and Japanese Buddhist art, this volume explores the cultural, ideological and artistic exchange between the two countries during the 6th-9th centuries, when Buddhism took hold throughout northeast Asia. Buddhist sculptures in gilt bronze, wood and stone are the main focus of this wo...

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Author / Contributor: Washizuka, Hiromitsu
Corporate Authors: Japan Society (New York, N.Y.). Gallery, Riben yan jiu hui, Korea Society (New York, N.Y.)
Other authors / contributors: Park, Youngbok, 1945-, Kang, U-bang, Richard, Naomi Noble
Imprint: New York : Japan Society, ©2003.
Format: Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Art, Japanese > To 1600 > Exhibitions.
Buddhist art > Japan > Exhibitions.
Art, Korean > To 935 > Exhibitions.
Buddhist art > Korea > Exhibitions.
Art, Japanese.
Art, Korean.
Buddhist art.
Japan.
Korea.
To 1600
Ausstellung > New York (NY) > 2003.
Exhibition catalogs.
Ausstellung.
New York (NY, 2003)
Table of Contents:
  • Preface / William Clark, Jr. and Donald Gregg
  • Foreword and Acknowledgements / Alexandra Munroe
  • Introduction: The Transmission and Transformation of Early Buddhist Culture in Korea and Japan / Jonathan Best
  • From the Stone Buddhas of Longxingsi to Buddhist Images of Three Kingdoms Korea and Asuka-Hakuho Japan / Tanabe Saburosuke
  • The Monastery Koryuji's "Crowned Maitreya" and the Stone Pensive Bodhisattva Excavated at Longxingsi / Onishi Shuya
  • Early Korean Buddhist Sculptures and Related Japanese Examples: Iconographic and Stylistic Comparisons / Kim Lena
  • Korean Gilt-Bronze Single Mandorla Buddha Triads and the Dissemination of East Asian Sculptural Style / Kwak Dong-seok
  • Korean Elements in Japanese Pictorial Representation in the Early Asuka Period / Ariga Yoshitaka
  • A New Theory: Ki as Represented in Koguryo Murals and Buddhist Haloes of the Three Kingdoms Period / Kang Woo-bang
  • Todaiji's Great Buddha: Its Foundation in Buddhist Doctrine and Its Chinese and Korean Precedents / Konno Toshifumi
  • Techniques of Early Buddhist Sculpture in Japan / Washizuka Hiromitsu
  • The Monastery Hwangnyongsa and Buddhism of the Early Silla Period / Park Youngbok
  • The Monastery Horyuji: Architectural Forms of Early Buddhism in Japan / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
  • The Art of Avatamsaka Sutra in the Unified Silla Period: The Sanctuary of Sokkuram and Hwaom-kyong Pyonsangdo (Narrative Portrayal in the Avatamsaka Sutra) / Kang Woo-bang
  • Early Korean and Japanese Reliquaries in Relation to Pagoda Architecture / Choi Eung-chon
  • Buddhist Sculpture
  • Sutras and Ritual Objects
  • Tiles from Temples
  • Roof Tiles of Korea's Three Kingdoms and Unified Silla Periods / Kim Song-gu
  • Korean Influence and Japanese Innovation in Tiles of the Asuka-Hakuho Period / Mori Ikuo.

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