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Cracking Cauldrons and Babies on Blossoms: The Relocation of Salvation in Japanese Hell Painting |
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Hirasawa, Caroline (著)
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Artibus Asiae
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| Volume | v.72 n.1 |
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| Date | 2012 |
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| Pages | 5 - 51 |
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| Publisher | Museum Rietberg Zurich |
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http://www.artibusasiae.com
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| Location | Zurich, Switzerland [蘇黎世, 瑞士] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Author affiliation: Waseda University |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| ISSN | 00043648 (P) |
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| Hits | 45 |
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| Created date | 2023.08.04 |
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| Modified date | 2023.08.04 |
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