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Tosa Mitsunobu and the Small Scroll in Medieval Japan by Melissa McCormick (2009, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Washington Press

ISBN-100295989025

ISBN-139780295989020

eBay Product ID (ePID)71165299

Product Key Features

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameTosa Mitsunobu and the Small Scroll in Medieval Japan

Publication Year2009

SubjectAsian / General, Asian / Japanese, History / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaArt

AuthorMelissa Mccormick

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight64.1 Oz

Item Length11.3 in

Item Width10.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2008-050723

Reviews_If what we wish for is a book based on first-rate scholarship that proposes a new way of seeing, understanding, and appreciating art within a particular historical and cultural setting, then this book is it._ Gregory P. A. Levine, University of California, Berkeley _Covers much material almost completely ignored in Western scholarship, and brings fresh insights even to one who knows the works and The Japanese scholarship._ Quitman E. Phillips, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "If what we wish for is a book based on first-rate scholarship that proposes a new way of seeing, understanding, and appreciating art within a particular historical and cultural setting, then this book is it." Gregory P. A. Levine, University of California, Berkeley "Covers much material almost completely ignored in Western scholarship, and brings fresh insights even to one who knows the works and the Japanese scholarship." Quitman E. Phillips, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal759.952

Table Of ContentNote to Readers Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION: THE SMALL SCROLL AND JAPANESE PICTORIAL NARRATIVE 1 A BRIEF HISTORY OF SMALL SCROLLS Fourteenth-Century Examples Large Scrolls and Short Narratives A Theory of the Short-Story Small Scroll Short-Story Small Scrolls in the Fifteenth Century The Visual Language of Short-Story Small Scrolls Small Scrolls as "Picture Books" for Children Smallness in Late Medieval Culture 2 THE CULTURAL MILIEU OF SANJONISHI SANETAKA AND TOSA MITSUNOBU The Reception of Miracles of the Kasuga Deity Mitsunobu, Painting Bureau Director Poetry Gatherings and Artistic Projects Buddhist Icons, Mortuary Portraits, and the Court Artist Mitsunobu, Sanetaka, and the Collaborative Process Clouds of Mt. Koya: A Small Scroll by Mitsunobu and Sanetaka 3 A WAKEFUL SLEEP: PAINTING THE DREAM TALE A Muromachi Period Dream Tale Reworking the Courtly Romance in Text and Image Visualizing a Karmic Bond The Female Protagonist and the Romantic Ideal A Wakeful Sleep and Aristocratic Marriage 4 THE JIZO HALL: A PICTORIAL REBIRTH The Scroll and the Story Combinatory Logic The Shadow Protagonist An Imperial Painting 5 BREAKING THE INKSTONE: AN ACOLYTE TALE FOR A YOUNG SHOGUN The Pictorial Language of Breaking the Inkstone Breaking the Inkstone as an Acolyte Tale Yoshizumi and Hosokawa Masamoto Masamoto, Mountains, and Magic Breaking the Inkstone and Bonds between Men Epilogue Appendix: Translations Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Index

SynopsisTosa Mitsunobu and the Small Scroll in Medieval Japan is the first book-length study to focus on short-story small scrolls (ko-e), one of the most complex but visually appealing forms of early Japanese painting. Small picture scrolls emerged in Japan during the fourteenth century and were unusual in constituting approximately half the height of the narrative handscrolls that had been produced and appreciated in Japan for centuries. Melissa McCormick's history of the small scroll tells the story of its emergence and highlights its unique pictorial qualities and production contexts in ways that illuminate the larger history of Japanese narrative painting. Small scrolls illustrated short stories of personal transformation, a new literary form suffused with an awareness of the Buddhist notion of the illusory nature of worldly desires. The most accomplished examples of the genre resulted from the collaboration of the imperial court painter Tosa Mitsunobu (active ca. 1469-1522) and the erudite Kyoto aristocrat Sanjonishi Sanetaka (1455-1537). McCormick unveils the cultural milieu and the politics of patronage through diaries, letters, and archival materials, exposing the many layers of allusion that were embedded in these scrolls, while offering close readings that articulate the artistic language developed to an extreme level of refinement. In doing so, McCormick also offers the first sustained examination in English of Tosa Mitsunobu's extensive and underappreciated body of artistic achievements. The three scrolls that form the core of the study are A Wakeful Sleep (Utatane soshi emaki), which recounts the miraculous union of a man and a woman who had previously encountered each other only in their dreams; The Jizo Hall (Jizodo soshi emaki), which tells the story of a wayward monk who achieves enlightenment with the help of a dragon princess; and Breaking the Inkstone (Suzuriwari soshi emaki), which narrates the sacrifice of a young boy for his household servant and its tragic consequences. These three works are easily among the most artistically accomplished and sophisticated small scrolls to have survived.

LC Classification NumberND1053.4.M43 2009