Explaining Pictures: Buddhist Propaganda and Etoki Storytelling in Japan 9780824844493

Early Japanese Buddhism was patronized by the literate classes and remained a prerogative of the elite until the end of

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Etoki in History
2. Deciphering the Founder of Japanese Buddhism
3. Deciphering Pure Land Imagery
4. Etoki as a Pure Land Method of Proselytization
5. Itinerant Etoki: Solicitors of Buddhism
6. Deciphering the Quasi-Religious Etoki Performer
7. Kumano Images and Propaganda for Women
8. Deciphering Mountain Worship
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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