Buddhist Materiality: A Cultural History of Objects in Japanese Buddhism

2010 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 555-559
Author(s):  
D. Max Moerman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Japanese Buddhism ◽  
History Of

Zen Buddhism and Muromachi Art

1963 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-432
Author(s):  
Ichirō Ishida ◽  
Delmer M. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Zen Buddhism ◽  
Japanese Culture ◽  
Japanese Buddhism ◽  
Muromachi Period ◽  
Noh Drama ◽  
History Of ◽  
Tea Ceremony ◽  
Landscape Gardening

When tea ceremony, flower arrangement, Noh drama, linked verse (renga), monochrome painting, and dry-landscape gardening are said to represent Japanese culture, it is usually assumed that they were produced and fostered by Zen Buddhism. If we are fully to understand these art forms, we must therefore make a systematic study of their relationship to Zen. The particular species of Zen diat is said to have produced and fostered these arts is the Rinzai Zen developed by Muso at the beginning of the Muromachi Period (1336–1573) when Zen first became a pervasive influence in the cultural history of Japan. Let us look, then, at the position of Muromachi Zen in the history of Japanese Buddhism.

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