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Exhibition of Japanese Painting and Sculpture

Book by Government of Japan; National Gallery of Art, 1953

Subjects:

Art, Japanese--Exhibitions

Collections: Entire Library

...the Iwabuchidera monastery. He was noted as...him is rare among Japanese portrait paintings...depiction of the Japanese landscape.The scroll...visits the Sekidera monastery in Omi Province...the pioneers of Japanese suiboku painting...the Kuo-ching-ssu monastery at Tien-tai-shan...
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2000 Years of Japanese Art

Book by Yukio Yashiro, Peter C. Swann; Thames and Hudson, 1958

Subjects:

Art, Buddhist, Art, Japanese

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...and the famous Horyu-ji Monastery is its greatest monument. It represents the first Japanese emulation of the architecture...on which to build, the Japanese were both ready and able...of the ancient Horyu-ji Monastery. According to a contemporary...
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The Lesson of Japanese Architecture

Book by Jiro Harada; Studio Limited, 1954

Subjects:

Architectural Practice--Japan, Architecture, Domestic--Japan, Architecture--Japan, Gardens, Japanese

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...HISTORIC JAPANESE BUILDINGS...Kondo of the Horyuji Monastery 26...precinct of the Horyuji Monastery, including the middle...discussion among Japanese scholars for nearly...gate-house of the Todaiji Monastery. The older style...was named wa-yo Japanese style . These three...
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Japanese Aesthetics and Culture: A Reader

Book by Nancy G. Hume; State University of New York Press, 1995

Subjects:

Aesthetics, Japanese, Arts, Japanese--Philosophy

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...though it is not quite so rigid. The typical plan of a Chinese monastery has the same buildings on one side of a central axis as on...poetry and prose is a staple feature of Chinese expression. Japanese writing that is not specifically under Chinese influence...
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The Japanese Influence in America

Book by Clay Lancaster; Walton H. Rawls, 1963

Subjects:

Architecture, Japanese--United States, Architecture--United States--Japanese Influences, Art, American--Japanese Influences, Art, Japanese

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CLAY LANCASTER THE JAPANESE INFLUENCE in AMERICA TO THE JAPAN SOCIETY which since...places." ARTICLE ONE COMMODORE PERRYS TREATY WITH THE JAPANESE 1854 The JAPANESE INFLUENCE in AMERICA BY CLAY LANCASTER WITH AN INTRODUCTION...

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Anning Jing. the Water God's Temple of the Guangsheng Monastery: Cosmic Function of Art, Ritual, and Theater

Journal article by Tracy Miller; China Review International, Vol. 9, 2002

Subjects:

The Water God's Temple of the Guangsheng Monastery: Cosmic Function of Art, Ritual, and Theater (Book)

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...such the wall paintings from Guangsheng Monastery and the Water Gods Temple are an important...similar themes in Buddhist, Hindu, and Japanese traditions. The play represented in the...mural program of the Lower Guangsheng Monastery was part of a response to the 1303 earthquake...
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Japanese Corporate Zen

Journal article by Daizen Victoria; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 12, 1980

Subjects:

Asia

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...Soto Zen monastery of Eihei-ji near...take traditional Japanese Buddhism, particularly...lines of a Zen monastery. Even the ordinary Japanese soldiers mess...wonder, then, that Japanese corporations...discipline of a Zen monastery attractive. As...
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Intimacy: a General Orientation in Japanese Reli Gious Values

Journal article by Thomas P. Kasulis; Philosophy East & West, Vol. 40, 1990

Subjects:

Philosophy, Philosophy, Asian

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...practice without that paradox. Japanese society is noted for the sensing...meditative activities of the monastery; differentiation in bowing...about Zen Buddhism or even Japanese management, we must realize...present purposes. In regard to Japanese morality, we can say that...
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A Dialogue Experience of a Japanese Catholic

Journal article by Filo Hirota; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 39, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...stay with the Carmelite Sisters at their monastery. There is also an on-going interreligious...death." Dialogue is also common sense. In Japanese, the word that means a person is written...Missionaries of Berriz and a board member of the Japanese Catholic Council for Justice and Peace...
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No as Sociopolitical Commentary: Staging Chinese Literati in Medieval No Theatre

Journal article by Leo Shingchi Yip; Asian Theatre Journal, Vol. 24, 2007

Subjects:

Bai Letian (Play)--Evaluation, Chinese foreign relations--Analysis, Drama--Usage, Japanese foreign relations--Analysis, No--Political aspects, No--Social aspects, Noh drama--Political aspects, Noh drama--Social aspects, Plays--Usage, The Three Laughers (Play)--Evaluation

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...and external issues. The play Sansho appealed to medieval Japanese elites, particularly Buddhist monks and their acquaintances...step beyond the Tiger Ravine, which marked the land of the monastery. One day, while seeing off his visitors Tao Yuanming (365...

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Eternal Life: Having Established His Reputation Applying Monastic Architectural Principles to the Home and the High Street, Minimalism Comes Full Circle with John in the Czech Republic.Pawson's Design for a New Monastery

Magazine article; The Architectural Review, Vol. 215, April 2004

Subjects:

Architects--Works, Pawson, John--Works

Collections: Entire Library

...influences for Minimum were broad--from Japanese concepts of Zen, to the Quakers and Shakers...to stay with the monks in the mother monastery in Burgundy. Sharing the rhythm of their...will the Monks be living in the first monastery of the new millennium, but following...
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Japanese Tea Bowls: A Historical Look and a Class Project

Magazine article by Sara Grove Macaulay; Arts & Activities, Vol. 133, February 2003

Subjects:

Art teachers--Technique, Art--Study and teaching, Artists as teachers, Creative activities and seat work, Elementary school students--Study and teaching, Project method in teaching

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...monasteries learned about tea and, in 1191, a Japanese monk brought seeds of the tea plant back...thus tea drinking spread outside the monastery walls. The methods of preparing tea...no yu," meaning "hot water for tea" in Japanese and called the "tea ceremony" in English...
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Soji-Ji

Magazine article by John Lowe; American Scholar, Vol. 70, Winter 2001

Subjects:

Buddhism, Monasteries--Description and travel, Monastic and religious life--Personal narratives, Monastic life--Personal narratives, Religious life, Religious life--Buddhism, Zen Buddhism--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...wanted to stay in a Japanese training monastery, where I would...may enter the monastery." I said good...was Swiss, not Japanese; he spoke English...Because I was not Japanese, but an exceptionally...they fit, but the monastery had only small...
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Hiroshima, Mon Amour: A New Film Coincides with the Rebirth of the Nuclear Age

Magazine article by Carey Monserrate; Cross Currents, Vol. 54, Spring 2004

Subjects:

Motion pictures--Movie reviews, Original Child Bomb (Motion picture)--Movie reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...religion not only furnish a level of meaning for contemporary Japanese viewers; they communicate a respect for and responsibility...photographed the Hiroshima blast. After the war, he entered a monastery and took a vow of silence." Editors Note: Information on...
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Waking to the Spirit Clock

Magazine article by Trevanian; The Antioch Review, Vol. 61, Summer 2003

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...at a small mountain monastery I had heard about. It...French share with the Japanese the belief that an essential...which, again like the Japanese, they perform in exact...fellow guest at the monastery, for example, had been...the border from the monastery as it turned out), but...

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TURNING JAPANESE; A Touch of the Exotic: Japanese Secrets Are Taking the Beauty World by Storm

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 25, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...sake. Its anti-ageing effects were discovered when the hands of monks distilling ricewine at a Kobe monastery looked eternally youthful. Japanese women believe that they are born with magic Japanese skin, explainsMikiko Ashkiri, a research associate...
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McHenry College Will Add Japanese Zen Garden to Campus

Newspaper article by Patrick Garmoe; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 20, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...different styles of traditional Japanese Zen gardens. The only major...mountains to get to a Zen Buddhist monastery. The water basin and trees...through to reach a Zen Buddhist monastery, she wrote. Unlike many...displaying color, traditional Japanese gardens tend to focus on contrasting...
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Harness Your Healing Power with REIKI; PICK UP YOUR LATEST FREE DVD AND FIND OUT ALL ABOUT THE JAPANESE ART OF REIKI MASSAGE

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 10, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...emotional, mental and spiritual. Reiki was discovered by a Japanese man called Mikao Usui around the turn of the 20th century...took him to America and eventually back to Japan and a Zen monastery where, after learning Sanskrit he found the answer in an ancient...
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Hideko Fell in Love with City's Medieval Past; HISTORY: Japanese Visitor Compiled Tribute to Old Buildings

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), October 6, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Compiled Tribute to Old Buildings. Byline: By Alan Harris A JAPANESE woman visiting Coventry became so fascinated with the citys...the old town wall, Lady Herberts Garden, the Whitefriars monastery and Fords Hospital. Hideko and her professor husband were...
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MYSTICAL TREK; 'Sites' along Silk Road Seen in Sackler Exhibit

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 15, 2002

Subjects:

Silk Road

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Mr. Izu, a 53-year-old Japanese-born New Yorker, is perhaps...moving photo of the Lamayuru Monastery in Ladakh. Mr. Izu and his...the mountain road above the monastery one morning in 1999. He began...the setting sun pierced the monasterys tightly clustered buildings...

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Japanese Architecture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...in the 7th cent. the great monastery of Horyu-ji, near Nara, was...illustrate the first epoch of Japanese architecture (6th 8th cent...Throughout the 8th cent. the Japanese continued to emulate the architects of China. The gigantic monastery of Todai-ji was begun in 745...
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Kukai

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Buddhism. He was (804 806) a member of a Japanese embassy to Tang China, where he studied...emperor. In 816 he founded the Kongobuji monastery on Mt. Koya, S of Kyoto. Kukai is famous...combination with Chinese characters, Japanese is written. Mt. Koya is still a center...
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Temple , Edifice of Worship

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...only in its size and richness. Besides the temple a Buddhist monastery includes a relic shrine, a pagoda, a library, and quarters...Indian art and architecture ; Chinese architecture ; Japanese architecture ; pre-Columbian art and architecture...
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Orthodox Eastern Church

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...most of their members when the eastern sections of the countries were repossessed by the Soviet Union in World War II. The Japanese Orthodox Church became autonomous under government pressure (1939). It had its origin in a Russian mission founded in 1860...

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