Efficacious Underworld: The Evolution of Ten Kings Paintings in Medieval China and Korea 9780824856052

The Ten Kings hanging scrolls at Tokyo’s Seikadō Bunko Art Museum are among the most resplendent renderings of the Buddh

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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
Introduction
EVOLUTION OF TEN KINGS PAINTINGS IN CHINA
Introduction
1. Images of the Ten Kings: Early Traces
2. Transitional Link from Handscroll to Individualized Hanging Scrolls: The Former Packard Set
3. Full Efflorescence in Southern Song Ningbo
4. Post-Song Variations
THE TEN KINGS CULT IN KORYŎ
Introduction
5. Buddhist Rituals and the Ten Kings Paintings in Koryŏ
6. The Scripture on the Ten Kings from Haeinsa (1246)
THE TEN KINGS FROM THE SEIKADŌ BUNKO ART MUSEUM
7. Introduction to the Seikadō Ten Kings
8. The Seikadō Ten Kings as Iconic Images
9. Northern Song Figure-Painting Styles in the Seikadō Ten Kings
10. Northern Song Landscape- and Flower-Painting Styles in the Seikadō Ten Kings
11. Ritual Context: Royal Ancestral Worship in the Buddhist Style
Conclusion
Appendix
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Efficacious Underworld: The Evolution of Ten Kings Paintings in Medieval China and Korea
9780824856052