abstract: A Japanese national identity is generally thought to have originated in the 17th century, with the advent of the Kokugaku movement. I will argue that there is earlier evidence for the existence of a Japanese national identity in the Kumano Nachi mandalas of the Kamakura and Muromachi periods. These mandalas employ the Nachi waterfall as a symbol of the strength and power of the Japanese land, counterbalancing Chinese Buddhist visual motifs. In this paper, I further assert that these mandalas are an early example of an artistic tradition of painting specific landscape features as symbols of a Japanese national identity, and that this tradition continues into the modern period. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Art History 2017
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:46262 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Contributors | Gossett, Sarah E. (Author), Brown, Claudia (Advisor), Codell, Julie (Committee member), Gabbard, Ralph (Committee member), Hedberg, William (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| Source Sets | Arizona State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Masters Thesis |
| Format | 51 pages |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved |
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