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Cracking Cauldrons and Babies on Blossoms: The Relocation of Salvation in Japanese Hell Painting |
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Author |
Hirasawa, Caroline (著)
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Source |
Artibus Asiae
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Volume | v.72 n.1 |
Date | 2012 |
Pages | 5 - 51 |
Publisher | Museum Rietberg Zurich |
Publisher Url |
http://www.artibusasiae.com
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Location | Zurich, Switzerland [蘇黎世, 瑞士] |
Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
Language | 英文=English |
Note | Author affiliation: Waseda University |
Abstract | At the bottom of a thirteenth-century painting, a large cauldron cracks into pieces. As water streams through the fissures and douses flames below, lotus flowers bloom from within the ruptured vessel, three bearing newborn babies. This image plays a critical role in a narrative network composed throughout fifteen hanging scrolls that illustrate the six realms of transmigration (rokudō). The skillful brushwork, venerability, and fine condition of this scroll set, entitled Rokudō-e (in the collection of the temple Shōjuraigōji, Shiga prefecture), make it a landmark in the history of Japanese painting. Moreover, multiple copies brought its pictorial details into wide circulation; passages conceived or assembled in the Rokudō-e are clearly evident in many later paintings, even in works that adhere to different genres. Variations on the cauldron-lotus-baby motif appear in a few other thirteenth-century paintings, and in numerous subsequent medieval and early-modern images. While we cannot definitively ascertain that the motifs dissemination originated with the Shōjuraigōji scroll set, the Rokudō-e contains one of the oldest surviving examples and influenced generations of painters. |
Table of contents | Shōjurraigōji's Rokudō-e 6 Hell's Cauldron 8 Eleventh-Hour Rescues 10 Textual Precedents 15 Seeking Salvation in Chinese Cauldron Illustrations 33 Babies and Blossoms 38 The Japanese Medieval Recalibration of Salvation 44 Acknowledgements 48 Glossary 49 |
ISSN | 00043648 (P) |
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Created date | 2023.08.04 |
Modified date | 2023.08.04 |
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