Explaining pictures
Subtitle: Buddhist propaganda and etoki storytelling in Japan
By: Ikumi Kaminishi.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780824826970
Subjects: Buddhist preaching -- Japan; Storytelling -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism; Painting, Buddhist -- Japan; Narrative painting, Japanese
Description: Beginning with the claim that the popularisation of Buddhism in the medieval period was a phenomenon of visual culture, this book reexamines the history of medieval Japanese Buddhism. It treats Buddhist art as religious propaganda and pictorial storytelling as a form of popular culture in medieval Japan.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.