Zen Buddhist Landscape Arts of Early Muromachi Japan (1336-1573) Seth Forman

Zen Buddhist Landscape Arts of Early Muromachi Japan (1336-1573) Seth FormanExplores Japanese literary Zen through the landscape arts of poetry, prose, painting, and gardens expressed in the writings of Japan's Five Mountain monks. Examining inscriptions on landscape paintings and related documents, this book explores the views of the "two jewels" of Japanese Zen literature, Gido Shushin (1325 1388) and Zekkai Chushin (1336 1405), and their students. These monks played important roles as advisors to the shoguns Ashikaga

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