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Fabricating the Tenjukoku shūchō mandara and Prince Shōtoku's afterlives
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9004182608 (hbk.)
9789004182608 (hbk.)
Author
Pradel, María del Rosario
Title
Fabricating the Tenjukoku shūchō mandara and Prince Shōtoku's afterlives / by Chari Pradel
Publisher
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016
Physical desc.
xi, 277 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
Series
Japanese visual culture
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Includes bibliographical references (246-262) and index.
Contents
Pt. 1: Material and visual evidence. Fabric structures and embroidery stitches: a short summary -- Methodology for the visual analysis -- Analysis of the motifs on the shūchō fragments -- Conclusion: visual evidence -- Pt. 2: The embroidered inscription and the Imperial biography. Writing in ancient Japan -- The inscription in the Imperial biography -- Prince Shōtoku and Princess Tachibana -- Issues with the Imperial biography inscription -- Role of kinship groups -- The Jōgū Shōtoku hōō teisetsu -- Conclusion -- Pt. 3: Tenjukoku shūchō in seventh-century Japan -- Embroidery as pictorial medium and status symbol -- Curtains in East Asia -- Infusion of new ideas from China -- Political nuances in the shūchō -- Afterlife beliefs and funerary practices -- Tenjukoku as an afterlife realm -- Conclusion -- Pt. 4: From shūchō to Tenjukoku mandara. Pure land Buddhism and the cult of the prince -- Chūgūji and the nun Shinnyo -- From shūchō to Tenjukoku mandara -- Conclusion -- Pt. 5: The restoration, fragmentation, and secularization of the Tenjukoku mandara. The Tenjukoku mandara in the lore of the Shōtoku cult -- The Edo period: from religious icon to antique -- Reconstructing the Tenjukoku mandara -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appenix: fabrics and stitches.
Person as subject
Shōtoku Taishi -- 574?-622 -- Art
Corporate name
Chūgūji (Ikaruga-chō, Nara-ken, Japan)
Subject
Tenjukoku shūchō mandara
Embroidery -- Japan -- History
Textile fabrics -- Japan -- History
Textile design -- Japan -- History
Art, Japanese -- Japan -- Ikaruga-chō (Nara-ken)
Art, Japanese -- Chinese influences
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