Thirteenth-century Japanese paintings illustrate salvation from hell with a motif of infants rais... more Thirteenth-century Japanese paintings illustrate salvation from hell with a motif of infants raised above a cracking cauldron aboard blossoming lotus flowers. This motif draws on continental textual and visual components, but rearranges them by inserting conceptions of salvation in the Pure Land of the Buddha Amitâbha directly into the depths of hell, a radical compression of once-discrete imaginings of the worlds of paradise and damnation. Through tracing conceptual developments in different cultural contexts that inform this imagery, Hirasawa demonstrates how new ideas emerged from the shifting sands between text and image, and argues that the full flowering of this motif signals an important transition in Japanese conceptions of salvation during the medieval period.
Thirteenth-century Japanese paintings illustrate salvation from hell with a motif of infants rais... more Thirteenth-century Japanese paintings illustrate salvation from hell with a motif of infants raised above a cracking cauldron aboard blossoming lotus flowers. This motif draws on continental textual and visual components, but rearranges them by inserting conceptions of salvation in the Pure Land of the Buddha Amitâbha directly into the depths of hell, a radical compression of once-discrete imaginings of the worlds of paradise and damnation. Through tracing conceptual developments in different cultural contexts that inform this imagery, Hirasawa demonstrates how new ideas emerged from the shifting sands between text and image, and argues that the full flowering of this motif signals an important transition in Japanese conceptions of salvation during the medieval period.
Thirteenth-century Japanese paintings illustrate salvation from hell with a motif of infants rais... more Thirteenth-century Japanese paintings illustrate salvation from hell with a motif of infants raised above a cracking cauldron aboard blossoming lotus flowers. This motif draws on continental textual and visual components, but rearranges them by inserting conceptions of salvation in the Pure Land of the Buddha Amitâbha directly into the depths of hell, a radical compression of once-discrete imaginings of the worlds of paradise and damnation. Through tracing conceptual developments in different cultural contexts that inform this imagery, Hirasawa demonstrates how new ideas emerged from the shifting sands between text and image, and argues that the full flowering of this motif signals an important transition in Japanese conceptions of salvation during the medieval period.
Thirteenth-century Japanese paintings illustrate salvation from hell with a motif of infants rais... more Thirteenth-century Japanese paintings illustrate salvation from hell with a motif of infants raised above a cracking cauldron aboard blossoming lotus flowers. This motif draws on continental textual and visual components, but rearranges them by inserting conceptions of salvation in the Pure Land of the Buddha Amitâbha directly into the depths of hell, a radical compression of once-discrete imaginings of the worlds of paradise and damnation. Through tracing conceptual developments in different cultural contexts that inform this imagery, Hirasawa demonstrates how new ideas emerged from the shifting sands between text and image, and argues that the full flowering of this motif signals an important transition in Japanese conceptions of salvation during the medieval period.
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