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portada Japanese Sculpture of the Tempyo Period
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2014
Language
English
Pages
412
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9780674437289
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Japanese Sculpture of the Tempyo Period

Langdon Warner (Author) · Harvard University Press · Hardcover

Japanese Sculpture of the Tempyo Period - Langdon Warner

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Synopsis "Japanese Sculpture of the Tempyo Period "

This is the one-volume edition of a work first published as a collection of plates with a separate text. It combines excellent illustrations of the treasures preserved at Nara, Japan, with the late Langdon Warner's illuminating commentary. From india, Buddhism spread through China and Korea, reaching japan in the sixth century. It became so formidable a rival of shinto that eventually the two religions merged. The eighth-century center of Buddhism was the town of Nara, the first permanent capital of Japan. Here were built temples and shrines, the Daibutsu of Great Buddha, and here today are preserved in valuable relics of magnificence, beauty, and dignity. The author describes the craftsman, Nature, and Shinto in Japanese culture, and devotes a chapter to Buddhism and the arts, Lacquer sculpture, masks of Gigaku drama, and image-making are also analyzed. The second part of the book describes each of the 219 plates in detail, nothing the material of the art object, its size, location, h

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