Seven Tengu Scrolls. Evil and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism.
United States. University of Hawaii Press. 2012. Stock ID #219315 This is a study of visual and textual images of the well-known mythical Japanese creature tengu in medieval Japan, focusing on a late 13th century illustrated hand scroll known as the Tengu zoshi. This half human, half bird trickster figure came to represent destructive, impure, and transgressive impulses. In examining representation of the tengu, the author reflects on the place and nature of evil in the medieval Buddhist imagination. When referring to this item please quote stockid 219315.
Colour and black and white photographic illustrations, xx + 203 pages, index, bibliography, notes, very good in dustjacket.
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