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in Imagined Selves: Mediating Desires and Subject Positions in the Japanese Literati Art of Okuhara Seiko (1837–1913)
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Published: 01 October 2020
Figure 1. Yan Zhenqing (Chinese, 709–785), Record of the Altar of the Immortal of Mount Magu (detail), rubbing of a stele dated 771. Ink on paper, 26.5 × 15.5 cm. Tokyo National Museum. Photograph: TNM Image Archives.
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Figure 12. Anonymous painter, The Immortal Lü Dongbin Appearing over the Yueyang Pavilion , China, thirteenth–fourteenth century. Fan mounted as an album leaf, ink and color on silk, 23.8 × 25.1 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 17.170.2. Artwork in public domain. Photograph
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Figure 14. Anonymous painter, Immortal Riding a Phoenix , thirteenth century. Fan mounted as an album leaf, ink and colors on silk, 25.3 × 26.2 cm. Palace Museum, Beijing.
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41. Liu Jun (Chinese, active ca. 1475–ca. 1505), The Daoist Immortal Xan Xiangzi , China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), undated, late fifteenth–early sixteenth century. Framed hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, image 121.9 × 67.9 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016.238. Purchase, Oscar L
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Archives of Asian Art (2016) 66 (1): 51–80.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Kumja Paik Kim Abstract The eighteenth-century Korean painter Kim Hong-do 金弘道 (1745–ca. 1806) still dazzles today's viewers with his paintings of genre scenes and Daoist immortals, just as he astonished his contemporaries with his talent and versatility. Although he had numerous patrons, none had...
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Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (1): 67–86.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of different social, political, and religious contexts, from city walls and palaces to imperial shrines and tombs. After the First Qin Emperor and Emperor Wu of the Han erected twin towers at the palaces they built in their pursuit of immortality, twin towers also became signifiers of the celestial realm...
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Archives of Asian Art (2007) 57 (1): 95–120.
Published: 01 April 2007
... his strong aspirations to become
for commoners’ use. But the vogue was short-lived. an Immortal. Of the three porcelain designs under con-
Unlike conventionally written auspicious words, which sideration, one shows auspicious characters emerging
have continued to decorate artifacts down...
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Archives of Asian Art (2013) 63 (2): 179–187.
Published: 01 October 2013
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Fig. 1. Zhang Jin (China, ca. 1450s–
1520s), Daoist Immortal Han Xiangzi
Walking across the Ocean. Hanging scroll...
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in Imagined Selves: Mediating Desires and Subject Positions in the Japanese Literati Art of Okuhara Seiko (1837–1913)
> Archives of Asian Art
Published: 01 October 2020
Figure 13. Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, ca. 1753–1806), Hanaōgi of Ōgiya , from the series “Renowned Beauties Likened to the Six Immortal Poets,” ca. 1795–96. Woodblock print; ink and colors on paper, 38.6 × 25.8 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
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Archives of Asian Art (2007) 57 (1): 23–49.
Published: 01 April 2007
... typically carved with a large dragon and tiger
one of the princess’s status have been entitled? Since on opposite long sides of a coffin, accompanied by a
the tombs of Gao Huan and Gao Cheng, whose funerals host of Immortals, and additional imagery on the short
evoked that of the powerful Han statesman...
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Archives of Asian Art (2014) 64 (1): 75–92.
Published: 01 April 2014
... the image of three
painting in order to reinvent the park as a Communist legendary mountains for the immortals—named Penglai
paradise; (4) a reconsideration of Li Keran’s painting of Fangzhang and Yingzhou oating on
Beihai in relationship to his career, revealing his strate- the Eastern Sea.25 Later...
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Archives of Asian Art (2001) 52 (1): 11–43.
Published: 01 April 2001
... though nothing of the sort is mentioned in Tao's text:3
below—have captured the current of yearning that flows Exotic, fantastic imagery of this nature imbues the Peach
through it and the frisson of revelation on which it turns (Figs. Spring story with the air of an immortality fable; it also
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Archives of Asian Art (2020) 70 (2): 199–224.
Published: 01 October 2020
... Chinese imagination were considered a sacred station for journeys toward heaven and immortality. 54 Not surprisingly, the rich landscape depicted on this sarcophagus is part of a greater world that encompasses both earthly and celestial realms. In the upper half of the panels, the earthly landscape...
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Archives of Asian Art (2004) 54 (1): 97.
Published: 01 April 2004
..." Images of the Immortals' Realm," and "Mountains as
Spiritual Home" has guided a generation of scholars on
Munakata served as a lecturer in the Department of this fundamental subject.
History at Yale University from 1962 to 1964...
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Archives of Asian Art (2019) 69 (1): 73–101.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Figure 12. Anonymous painter, The Immortal Lü Dongbin Appearing over the Yueyang Pavilion , China, thirteenth–fourteenth century. Fan mounted as an album leaf, ink and color on silk, 23.8 × 25.1 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 17.170.2. Artwork in public domain. Photograph...
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Archives of Asian Art (2021) 71 (1): 63–91.
Published: 01 April 2021
... to Heaven, and signify the land of immortals. 53 The Qin and Han emperors, fervently desiring immortality, would dispatch the fangshi magicians to seek the divine fungi. Sightings of such magical plants were also read as messages from Heaven signifying rightful rule. 54 In the funerary context...
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Archives of Asian Art (2012) 62 (1): 47–67.
Published: 01 April 2012
...- can be found equally in portraits and portrait-like images
ing landscape, and is indubitably related to the patrons’ of chungin. One fascinating contemporary example is
interest in establishing the historicity of certain buildings Immortal with a Sword by the so˘ o˘ l secondary son...
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Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (2): 151–153.
Published: 01 October 2022
... occupies the crucial, scary space in between, a place where there can be, in the immortal words of Monty Python's Life of Brian , ‘‘a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things.’’ For the last sixteen years, Naomi Richard has been our editor...
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Archives of Asian Art (2012) 62 (1): 1–3.
Published: 01 April 2012
..., a falcon, and an eggplant
utes, and markets the final product. The editor occupies is more common. One day, however, the closing line of
the crucial, scary space in between, a place where there a message about a wayward author read ‘‘Fuji, Falcon,
can be, in the immortal words of Monty Python’s Life...
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Archives of Asian Art (2017) 67 (1): 83–109.
Published: 01 April 2017
... that “they characteristically embody multiple wishes for good outcomes, such as length of days followed by blessed immortality, and simultaneously perform other tasks such as decorating surfaces, pleasing the eye, documenting auspicious phenomena, visually proclaiming virtue and thus bolstering legitimacy.” Bickford, “Emperor...
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