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The Japanese Buddhist world map : religious vision and the cartographic imagination /

From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. This expansively illustrated volume is the first to explore the largely unknown archive of Japanese Buddhist world maps and analyze their production,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moerman, D. Max (David Max) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2022]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pilgrimage and the visual imagination : text, image, and the map of the Buddhist world
  • Islands of meaning : locating Japan in a Buddhist world
  • Antecedents and afterimages : the culture and contexts of replication
  • Hybrid cartographies : the Buddhist map and the Tokugawa world
  • Buddhist cartography and print culture : religious vision in the age of mechanical reproduction
  • War of the worlds : cosmological debate and the epistemology of vision.