| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This project concerns the functions of medieval Japanese handscrolls that are based on Buddhist teachings (Kyosetsu emaki). I analyze their texts and images, as well as related Buddhist sutras. During this research period, I examined a total of
(1)Kamakura-period depictions of King Enma's Court are deeply influenced by Esoteric Buddhist art collected in Mikkyo-zuzo-shu such as “Hakuhokusho.” Thus, one can detect arelationship between the production of these handscrolls and the
(2) Influences from the illustrated scrolls of the Ten Kings Sutra (there are several surviving copies from the late Tang to Song dynasty) are clearly observed in the hanging scroll of the Six Realms at Shojuraigoji temple. From this connecti
(3) The Ban Dainagon emaki shares the same iconographic pattern with Pure Land Buddhist art such as those representing the Six Realms. This last point has been overlooked in previous scholarship.
Portions of this research have been made public in publications such as “King Enma'sCourt in the Six Realms Paintings of the Shojuraigoji Version : Influences from the Mandala of Yamaraja (Enma-ten Mandala）” Kyoritsu joshi daigaku Bungei ga
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