Explaining pictures

Description:

Beginning with the claim that the popularisation of Buddhism in the medieval period was a phenomenon of visual culture, this book reexamines the history of medieval Japanese Buddhism. It treats Buddhist art as religious propaganda and pictorial storytelling as a form of popular culture in medieval Japan.

subjects: Buddhism,  Buddhist Painting,  Buddhist preaching,  Japanese Narrative painting,  Religious aspects of Storytelling,  Storytelling,  Buddhism, japan,  Religious aspects

Places: Japan