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...Susan N. Erickson Abstract Objects carved of jade often were placed in Han-dynasty burials of people of high rank. This article focuses on a small, shield-shaped (or “heart-shaped”) pendant frequently found near the deceased. The development of the type is examined through its appearance in tombs...

...Figure 11. Layer 2 (middle layer), the simulated “burial chamber” (middle layer) of Yuan Mi's stone sarcophagus, probably near Luoyang, Henan province, 524 ce . Made by Jie Shi with rubbing from Okumura, “Mekki kōshiden sekkan no kokuga ni tsuite,” folded illustration, unpaginated. ...

... on the wall, designates the person interred, or whether Dongsu was nothing more than a high- ranking bodyguard and the person interred was a Koguryo king or nobleman; and if a king, whether King MichOn (Cili) or King Gogukwon ( trkal ff ). Anak Tomb 3 consists of a passage leading to the burial...

... Carolina at Chapel Hill ombs in ancient China have been the chief sources ‘‘underground wooden architecture in brick as it will Tfor the study of Chinese art because of the wealth be called in this paper, contrast significantly with older of burial goods, furnishings, figurines, murals, etc...

... of the cave is a participant in the scene and is implicated in their relationship. At Shuiyu Si the same individual—Zhang Yuanfei- appears among the worshipper figures in both contexts. In Fig. 14. East burial cave at Shuiyu Si. Ca. 573 CE. Photograph her identity as a lay leader of the yi-society...

.... claims her relationship by marriage to the ruling Gao This essay seeks to examine the role of the princess’ family and her burial’s proximity to the mausoleum of tomb at this pivotal political moment in the mid-sixth Gao Huan.3 Although her tomb was pillaged, archeolo- century. After introducing...

... that took place in 318 ce concerning a type of funerary practice called a “soul-summoning burial” ( zhaohun zang 招魂髒), I contend that the traditional Chinese thanatology of “binary souls” (i.e., a spiritual and bodily soul) was still influential in the funerary practices of third- and early fourth...

... he uncertain fate of the dead was always a major Although the roles of such images within the burial Tconcern surrounding tomb-making in traditional chamber have been discussed at length in previous studies, China. A series of rituals were conducted before, during, the notion of how they might...

... into the designs of their burial sites and religious complexes. Finally, during the Eastern Han dynasty, members of the newly prominent bureaucratic lineages appropriated the same form as a medium through which to assert their social standing. During each of these successive periods, different social groups used...

... was positioned to extend its protectorate to Xingzong emperor would be interred at the site as well, earlier burials of the Yelu¨ 耶律 clan, the ruling house of as would be his successor, the Daozong 道宗 (r. 1055– Liao. Huailing the tomb site of the second Liao 1101) emperor.53 The pagoda cannot be seen from...

..., flat bronze surface and lack a center knob. 70 This might have provided a wider, uninterrupted surface for the application of brushed-on ornamentation. Many plain mirrors with smooth, flat surfaces, referred to in Chinese as “ su mian ” 索面 have been excavated from Eastern Zhou burials. 71 Some...

.... the campus of Nanjing University, close to the Eastern Although a few plaques may have been produced during Jin imperial mausolea.4 The burial was disturbed and the Sixteen Kingdoms (304–439)—a brief succession of no epitaphs have survived, so the identities of the two states north and west of China’s...

... last saw her she was concerned with the (Nihon bunjinga tenran; Riben wenrenhua zhanlan). Hong burial of her mother's ashes in Brazil, where her father had Kong: Art Gallery, Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese died, and was writing a family history in an attempt to University of Hong Kong...

...? Tamar. Some Remarks on the Xishuipo Burial, vol. 46 (1993), p. TOO; A Erickson, Susan N. Boshanlu—Mountain Censers of the Western Han Small Figural Bronze in the Shanghai Museum, vol. 48 (1995), pp. Period:A Typological and Critical...

... of Śiva, Durgā, Nandī, and liṅga s. 72 Liṅga s are housed inside North Indian shrines, so if any were found in the matter burying the temple then they must have been placed there, they could not have fallen onto it. Arguably the most plausible explanation for Muṇḍeśvarī's burial...

... was the site of several large monastic complexes as well as the burial ground for numerous illustrious members of Longmen's monastic comrnunity.s I shall argue...

... of the Three Powers) mist and Burial), attributed to Guo Pu (276–324), contains an clouds were also mentioned among the features of the early extended account of this concept. This book, on Western Park, where the Jiajing emperor resided. Sur- burial and geomancy, explains the nature and character rounding...

... forest, a lost forest. My work is like a burial ceremony for a forest. In a sense it is a form of purification. Burial ceremonies are not for the dead but a way for the living to possess death, to define and humanize it, to accept it. The image in my work, then, is that of a person living in a city...