NARA—The Nara National Museum has unveiled the details of its first full-scale exhibition devoted to national treasures, which will bring together Japan’s finest works of Buddhist art next ...

and Japanese devised a system for equating Buddhist deities with Shinto gods. The Heian aristocracy could never have enjoyed lives filled with romance, poetry, art, and religious devotion without ...

Carolyn Wargula is Assistant Professor of Art History. She is a specialist of Japanese Buddhist art with a focus on the materiality and intermediality of textiles, the social significances of the body ...

NARA--A special two-part exhibition is being held at the Nara National Museum here that traces the 1,400-year history of Buddhist art in Japan through 246 artworks, of which 13 are national treasures.

Books in this series present new research and histories on works of art and material culture from across East Asia, including China, Japan, and Korea, and ranging from the ancient period to today.

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Drawing on the National Museum of Asian Art's collections and collecions from across the Smithsonian, artworks spanning two millennia reveal Asia's rich Buddhist heritage. They represent diverse ...

11, edited by Oren Hanner. Hamburg: Numata Center for Buddhist Studies, 2020. “Creative Nothingness: Dada as Art, Politics and Religion in Interwar Japan.” Anarchism, a special issue of ...