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Plotting the Prince traces the development of conceptual maps of the world created through the telling of stories about Prince Shotoku (573?â622?), an eminent statesman who is credited with founding Buddhism in Japan. It analyses his place in the sacred landscape and the material relics of the cult of personality dedicated to him, focusing on the art created from the tenth to fourteenth centuries. The book asks not only who Shotoku was, but also how images of his life served the needs of devotees in early medieval Japan. Even today Shotoku evokes images of a half-real, half-mythical figure who embodied the highest political, social, and religious ideals. Taking up his story about four centuries after his death, this study traces the genesis and progression of Shotokuâs sacred personas in art to illustrate their connection to major religious centres such as Shitenno-ji and Horyu-ji. It argues that mapping and storytelling are sister actsâboth structuring the world in subtle but compell

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      Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
      Publication Date: 12/30/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780824834630, 978-0824834630
      ISBN10: 0824834631
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      Book Synopsis
      Plotting the Prince traces the development of conceptual maps of the world created through the telling of stories about Prince Shotoku (573?â622?), an eminent statesman who is credited with founding Buddhism in Japan. It analyses his place in the sacred landscape and the material relics of the cult of personality dedicated to him, focusing on the art created from the tenth to fourteenth centuries. The book asks not only who Shotoku was, but also how images of his life served the needs of devotees in early medieval Japan. Even today Shotoku evokes images of a half-real, half-mythical figure who embodied the highest political, social, and religious ideals. Taking up his story about four centuries after his death, this study traces the genesis and progression of Shotokuâs sacred personas in art to illustrate their connection to major religious centres such as Shitenno-ji and Horyu-ji. It argues that mapping and storytelling are sister actsâboth structuring the world in subtle but compell

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