This volume, the first in Brill’s Japanese Visual Culture series, vividly describes the efforts of the Japanese monk Shunjobo Chogen (1121–1206) to restore major buildings and works of art lost in a b
In the aftermath of a civil war that led to the destruction of the Todaiji monastery, the ritual center of Japanese state Buddhism, the monk Shunjobo Chogen (1121-1206) was tasked with overseeing reco
In this beautifully illustrated book, eminent art historian John Rosenfield explores the life and art of the Japanese Buddhist monk H?zan Tankai (1629-1716). Through a close examination of sculptures,
Over the past four decades, Kimiko and John Powers amassed what has become recognized as the premier collection of Japanese art in the United States. One of the largest and most comprehensive collecti
Joe Price purchased his first Japanese painting in the 1950s, under the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright. Over the next five decades, he and his wife Etsuko would collect more than 200 masterpieces fr