Buddhism in Japan reading list
Seated figure of the Buddha Amida, Japan, 13th century. Museum no. FE.5-1972
Harris, Victor & Matsushima, Ken, Kamakura: The Renaissance of Japanese Sculpture 1185-1333, British Museum Press, London, 1991
Mitsunori, Hayashi and Kazuko, Shiozaki (ed.), Buddhist Art
(Volume 2), Shouun Oriental Art, Tokyo, 2001
Hiromitsu, Washizuka et al, Enlightenment Embodied: The Art of The Japanese Buddhist Sculptor (7th-14th centuries), Japan Society,
New York, 1997
Jiro, Sugiyama, Classic Buddhist Sculpture: The Tempyo Period (Japanese Arts Library 11), Kodansha, Tokyo, 1982
Kakichi, Suzuki, Early Buddhist Architecture in Japan, Kodansha, Tokyo, 1980
Kidder, J. Edward, Early Buddhist Japan, Thames and Hudson, London, 1972
Kobayashi, Takeshi, Nara Buddhist Art: Todai-ji, Weatherhill/Heibonsha, New York & Tokyo, 1975,
0-8348-1021-2
Kurata, Bunsaku, Horyu-ji: temple of the Exalted Law. Early Buddhist Art form Japan, Japan House Gallery & Japan Society, New York, 1981
Kyotaro, Nishikawa & Sano, Emily. J, The Great Age of Japanese Buddhist Sculpture: AD600-1300, Kimbell Art Museum/ Japan Society, New York, 1983
Kyoto: Daigo-ji Temple (ed), Esoteric Buddhist Arts from the Daigo-ji Temple, Daigo-ji Temple, Kyoto, (no date)
Lafleur, W.R and Nagatomi, Masatoshi, Flowing Traces: Buddhism in the Literary and Visual Arts of Japan/ Edited by James H. Sanford, Princeton University Press, 1992
Little, Stephen, Visions of the Dharma: Japanese Buddhist Paintings and Prints in the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1991
London Gallery. Ltd(ed), Buddha's Smile: Masterpieces of Japanese Buddhist Art, London Gallery, Ltd, Tokyo, Japan, 2000
Mason, Penelope, A History of Japanese Art, Abrams, New York, 1993
McCallum, Donald F, Buddhist Sculpture of the Sensu-ji, Matsuhiro, in Oriental Art, Winter 1979-80
pp. 462-470, 1979/80
Mizuno, Seiichi, Asuka Buddhist Art: Horyu-ji, Volume 4, The Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art, Weatherhill/Heibonsha, New York & Tokyo, 1974, 0-8348-1020-4
Mori, Hisashi, Sculpture of the Kamakura Period, Vol 4, Heibonsha, Tokyo, 1974
Mori, Hisashi, Japanese Portrait Sculpture (Japanese Arts Library 2), Kodansha, Tokyo, 1977
Morse, Anne Nishimura and Morse, Samuel Crowell, Object as Insight; Japanese Buddhist Art and Ritual, Kotonah Museum of Art, New York, 1995
Murthy, Krishna, Buddhism in Japan, Sundeep Prakashan, Delhi, 1989
Museum Rietberg Zurich (ed), Kannon; Divine Compassion: Early Buddhist Art from Japan, Museum Rietberg Zurich, Zurich, 2007
Nara National Museum (ed), Nihon no Bukkyo wo Kizuita Hitobito - Sono Shozo To Sho (Builders of Japanese Buddhism - their portraits and calligraphy), Nara National Museum, Nara, 1981
Nara National Museum (ed), Masterpieces of Buddhist Art, Nara National Museum, Nara, 1970
Nara National Museum (ed), Exhibition of Shari Containers and Related Buddhist Art, Nara National Museum, Nara, 1975
Nara National Museum (ed), Flowers of Buddhist Applied Arts, National Museum, Nara, 1982
Nara National Museum, Sources of Japanese Buddhist Art, Nara National Museum, 1978
Nara National Museum, Ko-Mikkyo: The Incipient Stages of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism, Exhibition, 26 July - 4 September 2005, Nara National Museum, Nara, 2005
Nara National Museum, Women and Buddhism, Exhibition, 15 April - 25 May 2003, Nara National Museum, Nara, 2003
Okazaki, Joji, Pure Land Buddhist Painting, Kodansha, Tokyo, 1977
Olson, Eleanor, Tantric Buddhist Art, China Institute in America, New York, 1974
Paine, Robert Treat & Soper, Alexander, The Art and Architecture of Japan, Penguin; Pelican History of Art, London, 1955
Pilgrim, Richard, Buddhism and the Arts of Japan, Anima Books, Chambersberg, PA, 1993
Saunders, E. Dale, Buddhism in Japan, with an outline of its origins in India, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1964
Sawa, Takaaki, Art in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism, Volume 8, Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art, Weatherhill/Heibonsha, New York & Tokyo, 1972, 0-8348-1001-8
Suzuki, D.T, Zen and Japanese Culture, Princeton University Press/Bollingen Foundation, 1959
Suzuki, D.T, Introduction to Zen Buddhism, Grove Press, 1971
Ten Grotenhuis, Elizabeth, Japanese Madalas; Representations of Sacred Geography, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1999
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