Fabricating the Tenjukoku Shūchō Mandara and Prince Shōtoku's Afterlives

CA. 300 Pp., Over 120 Illus. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-18260-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 277 Seiten, Format (B × H): 197 mm x 256 mm, Gewicht: 1132 g

Reihe: Japanese Visual Culture

In this comprehensive study of the Tenjukoku Shucho Mandara, Chari Pradel provides a new interpretation of this assemblage of embroidered textile fragments associated with Prince Shotoku (574–622). By analyzing the scant visual evidence in the context of East Asian visual art of the period, the author recreates the subject represented on the seventh century artifact and demonstrates that it was not Buddhist (as previously believed), but associated with the funerary iconography of China that arrived in Japan with immigrants from the Korean peninsula. In addition, by closely investigating the context for the compilation of each of the documents associated with the artifact, Pradel illuminates the history of the embroidery and its changing significance and perception over the centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pradel, Chari

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Textilkunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Chari Pradel, Ph.D. (1997), UCLA, is a Professor of Art History in the Department of Art at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and has published articles on Japanese art associated with Prince Shotoku.