Daitokuji
Subtitle: the visual cultures of a Zen monastery
By: Gregory P.A. Levine.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
Subjects: Daitokuji (Kyoto, Japan); Art, Zen -- Japan -- Kyoto
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Telling tales: art history's Daitokuji; title: Borrowed bodies: abbot portraiture at Daitokuji; title: Contested corpus of Chan/Zen portraiture; title: Founder's statue at Korin'in; title: Frailty of likeness; title: Making, breaking, and remembering: the Sanmon gate and statue of Sen No Rikyu; title: Gate of memory; title: Telling the tale; title: "Crucified" portrait; title: Tracing the calligraphic past at Daitokuji; title: Writing a calligraphic category: the creation of "Bokuseki"; title: Myriad calligraphers, multifarious traces: reading Kogetsu Sogan's Bokuseki No; title: Utsushi; title: Faking the masters: calligraphy forgery and Bokuseki No Utsushi; title: Taking in the breeze: airing the visual and textual past at Daitokuji; title: Mushiboshi at Daitokuji; title: Airings, exhibitions, and feuds; title: Repairing the temple, filling the museum: travels of the Daitokuji five hundred; title: Luohan.