Hell-bent for Heaven in Tateyama Mandara
Painting and Religious Practice at a Japanese Mountain
Biographical note
Caroline Hirasawa, Ph.D. (2005), Stanford University, is Associate Professor of Art History at Sophia University. She has published articles on Japanese paintings of hell, most recently,“Cracking Cauldrons and Babies on Blossoms,” in Artibus Asiae.
Readership
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Japanese premodern history, religion, and art, as well as to anyone interested in hell imagery and women's history.
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