...Wei-Cheng Lin Copyright © Asia Society 2011 Underground Wooden Architecture in Brick: A Changed Perspective from Life to Death in 10th- through 13th-Century Northern China wei-cheng lin University of North...

... residence, evoked the tradition of Chinese imperial-city building. It provided the ruler with wooden and stone buildings laid out on an orthogonal grid. Shangdu, the emperor's summer residence, delivered a space for grassland containing pastures, where the ruler could set up collapsible tents filled...

...Figure 10. Wooden coffin with sloping front panel and ringed handles on the side panels from Feng Sufu's tomb, Xiguanyingzi, Beipiao, Liaoning province. 415 ce . Reconstruction by Jie Shi, after Wenwu , no. 3 (1973): 4, fig. 4. ...

... rock and wooden architectural elements. This spectacular nine-volume set, edited by Dora Ching, features seven tomes devoted to Lo's 1943–1944 black-and-white photos. Organized chronologically (vols. 2–8), it also includes two additional volumes, one dedicated to reference matter (vol. 1) and one...

... share of scholarly attention, most of which has The paintings from NMK’s O¯ tani collection consist largely focused on the largest fragment (on the right in the of murals, most of which have been set into wooden illustration), which features an intriguing depiction of a frames, with filler added...

... kirishitan ) of Japan. A small brown wooden signboard with black Japanese calligraphic writing announces the continued banning of Christianity in Japan ( Figure 9 ). Although dated to 1868, the year of the Meiji restoration, this edict is similar to those that were posted throughout Japan starting in 1597...

... with the Khitan mentioned above, where excavation has occurred We thus turn to a preliminary survey of the 1950s to in more recent decades, brick and wooden objects, begin this investigation. including pieces of Buddhist sculpture, were found by Kherlen-Bars is the largest of three...

... certain ethnic distinctions, had pertaining to the technique and style of their presenta- embraced the democratic ideals of its American ally9 tion, as discussed in the following paragraphs: (1) the This prolific diversity surely did impress Americans for depiction of actual wooden planks or timbers...

... stalking elephants crown the Pradesh. In these regions, contemporaneous artisans em- ridge. Pilasters flank a pair of square-type columns that ployed by ascendant chiefly lineages were erecting wooden frame the entry to the rectangular sanctum. Built against temples in vernacular typologies (Fig. 10).12...

... (British­ JINAH KIM • Painted Palm-Leaf Manuscripts and the Art of the Book in Medieval South Asia     59 Fig. 1.  Paper curtains­ over painted panels,­ folios­ 57r–58v, folio 70r (bottom)­ and wooden book cover (top). A palm-leaf manu­ script­ of the Pañcarakṣā sūtra...

... as a group. Five disciples or two monks.The present anomalous assemblage large wooden images with painted wooden mandorlas, dat- of two Buddhas and three bodhisattavas (with no two of ing from the ninth to the tenth centuries, are at present the latter normally paired in iconic arrangements) evokes...

... around three Shyam (1960–2001), a Pardhan Gond adivasi from courtyards (Fig. 4). These, in turn, relate to the enclosed Patangarh, eastern Madhya Pradesh, painted bold figures spaces, which include large, operable wooden panels that on its counterpart for the folk and adivasi art gallery allow natural...

... limited number of extant pre-eighth-century wooden re- of the following two centuries. With this article I hope ligious or palatial structures in China contributes to the to show that the local idiom, of which the Daxiongbao- 2 ARCHIVES OF ASIAN ART dian of Kaihuasi was a part, would have been...

... their eighth-century wooden cores, but have sustained are made of clay most likely taken from the hill to the severe damage (and subsequent repair) over time.13 north of the temple.11 The majority of them range in The current arrangement of the figurines was deter- size from about 20 to 60 centimeters...

... farm. He attended which would threaten to tip over the bike, and how seminaries in the Netherlands and in Germany just one could tell what village a man came from by the de- before and during World War II. At one point he and signs painted on his wooden shoes. In his house in his classmates hid...

...Figure 20. Tiger sculpture, Spring and Autumn period, 770–481 bce . Looted in the early 1990s from Dabuzishan, Lixian, Gansu province, and sold abroad, then returned to China in 2015. Hammered gold applied to a wooden core with red paint, l. 41 cm. Reproduced by permission of Cultural Relics...

... are raised with regard to this issue: one is that a gate building in a rectangle three bays across by two bays deep stood in front of the ordination platform; the other is that on that spot stood a wooden pagoda in a square three bays by three. 44 Drawing on the available historical evidence dating...

... the required the same finesse and embellishment as was wooden beam ends projecting beneath the eaves of local deemed appropriate for icons. Hindu temples. The Napier Museum rafter shoes, from a Thus the rafter shoes, while making clear that the dis- temple in the Quilon District of southern Kerala...