Violets between cherry blossoms : the diffusion of classical motifs to the east : traces in Japanese art : fictions, conjectures, facts / / P.L.W. Arts

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910563159503321
• Autore: Arts P. L. W
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, : Leiden University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 9789400600386; 9400600380; 9789087281182; 9087281188
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxi, 763 p. ) : illustrations, maps
• Collana: Open Access e-Books; Knowledge Unlatched
• Disciplina: 709.52
• Soggetti: Art, Ancient - Greece; Art, East Asian - Greek influences; Art, Japanese - Greek influences; Greece Civilization; East Asia Civilization Greek influences; Japan Civilization Greek influences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 665-721).
• Nota di contenuto: Part 1: Culture flow from Greece to Japan: centres, carriers and tracks -- 1. The development and spread of Greek culture until 323 B.C. -- 2. Alexander the Great and the heritage of Hellenism in the Middle East and India -- 3. The Roman world and the East -- 4. Buddhism and trade: the vehicles of classical culture -- Part 2: Cultural flow from Greece to Japan: images, decorative patterns motifs -- 5. Some remarks on convergence, transfer and acceptance -- 6. Gods and heroes -- 7. Airborne Deities -- 8. Human figures -- 9. Pegasos -- 10. The fish-tailed dragon -- 11. The face of the monster -- 12. Dionysian motifs -- 13. Foliage and floral motifs -- 14. Conclusions.
• Sommario/riassunto: This richly illustrated book is a comparative study, which shows how motifs and images travelled throughout Eurasia from Rome to Tokyo. It ; covers a period from around the early fifth century BC up until today. It is likely that already in the fifth century BC there was some indirect cultural exchange between the Black Sea region and China. From the second to the sixth century AD elements of Greco-Buddhist culture gradually found their way to China and subsequently, from the mid-sixth century AD on, reached Japan. This book is the first comprehensive work to provide a critical and compelling study of the cultural flow across this extensive area. It shows convincingly how Greek images and motifs travelled East, were adopted and preserved in Chinese art and how they spread to Japan.