TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moerman,D.Max
TI  - The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination 
SN  - 9780824890056
AV  - BQ680.M6 M64 2022
U1  - 294.30952 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Honolulu : 
PB  - University of Hawaii Press, 
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Japan
KW  - Maps
KW  - Buddhist cosmology
KW  - Buddhist geography
KW  - Cartography
KW  - History
KW  - RELIGION / Buddhism / History
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; INTRODUCTION --; 1 PILGRIMAGE AND THE VISUAL IMAGINATION --; 2 ISLANDS OF MEANING --; 3 ANTECEDENTS AND AFTERIMAGES --; 4 HYBRID CARTOGRAPHIES --; 5 BUDDHIST CARTOGRAPHY AND PRINT CULTURE --; 6 WAR OF THE WORLDS --; CONCLUSION --; Notes --; Bibliography --; INDEX --; About the Author; restricted access
N2  - From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. This expansively illustrated volume is the first to explore the largely unknown archive of Japanese Buddhist world maps and analyze their production, reproduction, and reception. In examining these fascinating sources of visual and material culture, author D. Max Moerman argues for an alternative history of Japanese Buddhism—one that compels us to recognize the role of the Buddhist geographic imaginary in a culture that encompassed multiple cartographic and cosmological world views. The contents and contexts of Japanese Buddhist world maps reveal the ambivalent and shifting position of Japan in the Buddhist world, its encounter and negotiation with foreign ideas and technologies, and the possibilities for a global history of Buddhism and science. Moerman’s visual and intellectual history traces the multiple trajectories of Japanese Buddhist world maps, beginning with the earliest extant Japanese map of the world: a painting by a fourteenth-century Japanese monk charting the cosmology and geography of India and Central Asia based on an account written by a seventh-century Chinese pilgrim-monk. He goes on to discuss the cartographic inclusion and marginal position of Japan, the culture of the copy and the power of replication in Japanese Buddhism, and the transcultural processes of engagement and response to new visions of the world produced by Iberian Christians, Chinese Buddhists, and the Japanese maritime trade. Later chapters explore the transformations in the media and messages of Buddhist cartography in the age of print culture and in intellectual debates during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries over cosmology and epistemology and the polemics of Buddhist science.The Japanese Buddhist World Map offers a wholly innovative picture of Japanese Buddhism that acknowledges the possibility of multiple and heterogeneous modernities and alternative visions of Japan and the world
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824890056?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824890056
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824890056/original
ER  -