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Kevin Carr’s Plotting the Prince is the first study written in English that focuses on the cults of Prince Shōtoku (574–622). More specifically, as stated by the author: “the goal of the study is to tell the story of the cults of Shōtoku through the art historical record” (p. 3). As a well-trained art historian, Carr provides an insightful analysis of many important iconic imagery as well as paintings of the prince’s hagiographies produced in large-scale format. The paintings are usually on fixed panels and portable sets of hanging scrolls and are known as Illustrated Legends of Prince Shōtoku ( Shōtoku Taishi eden ), their dates of production ranging from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries. Carr weaves the cults into the religious context of medieval Japan and explores how the medieval period visual material associated with the prince served to create a new Buddhist paradigm of Japan as a sacred land. Being one of the first cults widely “visualized,” Carr propounds that the devotion to the prince became the model for subsequent hagiographies and apotheoses of Japanese religious figures. This book aligns with the current trend in scholarship in Japan, such as the one edited by Yoshida
Journal of Religion in Japan – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2014
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