Buddhism in Japan reading list

Seated figure of the Buddha Amida, Japan, 13th century. Museum no. FE.5-1972

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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