This book brings together the major forms of evidence for the cultural role of the Kushans - their gold coinage and imperial portraits in stone, their appearance as donors and devotees in religious carvings, etc.

Dynastic Arts of the Kushans

Politics & Social Sciences

Rosenfield, John M.

Social Sciences

University of California Press Berkeley & Los Angeles

In this beautifully illustrated book, eminent art historian John Rosenfield explores the life and art of the Japanese Buddhist monk Hozan Tankai (1629–1716). Through a close examination of sculptures, paintings, ritual implements, and primary documents, the book demonstrates how the Shingon prelate's artistic activities were central to his important place in the world of late-seventeenth-century Japanese Buddhism. At the same time, the book shows the richness of early modern Japanese Buddhist art, which has often been neglected and undervalued.Tankai was firmly committed to the spiritual disciplines of mountain Buddhism―seclusion, severe asceticism, meditation, and ritual. But in the 1680s, after being appointed head of a small, run-down temple on the slopes of Mount Ikoma, near Nara, he revealed that he was also a gifted artist and administrator. He embarked on an ambitious campaign of constructing temple halls and commissioning icons, and the Ikoma temple, soon renamed Hōzanji, became a vibrant center of popular Buddhism, as it remains today. He was a remarkably productive artist, and by the end of his life more than 150 works were associated with him.A major reconsideration of a key artistic and religious figure, Preserving the Dharma brings much-needed attention to an overlooked period of Japanese Buddhist art.

Preserving the Dharma: Hōzan Tankai and Japanese Buddhist Art of the Early Modern Era (Publications of the Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Princeton University Press

Two essays, originally presented as lectures, explore the poetry and paintings of the prolific Japanese artist Yosa Buson (1716–1784). An innovative freethinker, Buson is now recognized as one of the most remarkable artists of the 18th century and a prominent figure in Japan's cultural history. This book explores the ways by which Yosa Buson portrayed a realm of profound beauty and rich invention. Buson moved effortlessly between visual and verbal systems of expression, creating both paintings and poetry of lyrical beauty. The text focuses on a selection of works from the last phase of his career to elucidate the ways in which Buson’s poetic and pictorial sensibilities were intertwined.

Mynah Birds and Flying Rocks: Word and Image in the Art of Yosa Buson (Franklin D. Murphy Lectures, XVIII)

Yosa, Buson

Spencer Museum of Art

First edition. Based on an exhibition organised by, and shown at, Japan House Gallery and The Asia Society Galleries from 1984-85. Discusses the development of the basic and innovative writing styles that developed in Japan - Buddhist texts, Aristocratic scripts, Zen Buddhist masters, Masters of the tea ceremony, etc. Each tradition is discussed through illustrated examples drawn from thirty-three private and public collections in America and Europe. A marvelous production and one of the few books in English on this intriguing aspect of Far Eastern Art. Jacket rubbed. 340 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 4to..

Masters of Japanese Calligraphy, 8Th-19th Century

Shimizu, Yoshiaki

Frederic C. Beil

Cunningham, Michael R., Rosenfield, John M., Yiengpruksawan, Mimi Hall

Buddhist Treasures from Nara

Cleveland Museum Of Art

Cunningham, Michael R.

Yiengpruksawan, Mimi Hall

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Cleveland Museum of Art Bookstore

The Powers Collection, formed with the assistance of leading Japanese scholars, is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the West and includes works by such outstanding painters as Yosa Buson, Ike no Taiga, and Uragami Gyokudo and literary figures such as novelist Ihara Saikaku and poet Matsuo Basho. 
This new catalogue is the result of studies of the collection undertaken for nearly thirty years by Harvard University faculty and students under the direction of John Rosenfield, an outstanding authority in the field. It begins with an lengthy introductory essay exploring the concept of eccentricity in Japan (a concept akin to that of Romantic Genius in Europe). The entries are divided into seven sections exploring the different social and ideological constituencies for the visual arts of that era; each section will have a short introductory essay. Each of the 235 works is illustrated with details of seals and signature; the catalogue entries explore the style, subject matter, and authenticity of each work. No other work in Western language contains the same detail or range of subjects. 
The book also provides an extensive array of scholarly references. An appendix contains biographies of each artist and major patron represented here, exploring their intellectual and artistic backgrounds. In addition, it contains a highly detailed index that organizes the information and facilitates the book's use as a reference tool. In collaboration with Fumiko E. Cranston, and edited by Naomi Noble Richard.

Extraordinary Persons: Works by Eccentric, Nonconformist Japanese Artists of the Early Modern Era (1580-1868) in the Collection of Kimiko and John Powers

Richard, Naomi Noble

Cranston, Fumiko E.

Harvard Univ Art Museum

167 black &amp; white illustrations

Dynatics Arts of the Kushans

South Asia Books

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