Title: Explaining pictures
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.
Subjects: Buddhism, Buddhist Painting, Buddhist preaching, Japanese Narrative painting, Religious aspects of Storytelling, Storytelling, Buddhism, japan, Religious aspects
Places: Japan