源信 : 地獄極楽への扉 : 一〇〇〇年忌特別 /

Genshin : jigoku, gokuraku e no tobira : issen-nenki tokubetsuten / [henshū Nara Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan].

奈良国立博物館.
Contributor(s): Nara Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan
Language: Japanese, English Publisher: [奈良] : 奈良国立博物館 ; [東京] : 朝日新聞社, 平成29 [2017] Publisher: [Nara-shi] : Nara Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan ; [Tōkyō] : Asahi Shinbunsha, Heisei 29 [2017]Description: 328 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 30 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeOther title: Imagining the afterlife : hells and paradise envisioned by the Buddhist Prelate Genshin [Added title page title]Subject(s): Genshin, 942-1017 | Hell in art -- Exhibitions | Heaven in art -- Exhibitions | Pure Land Buddhism in art -- Exhibitions | Buddhist art -- Japan -- Exhibitions

Catalog of an exhibition held at Nara National Museum, July 15-September 3, 2017.

Errata slip inserted.

Includes bibliographical references.

Includes chronological list of events in Genshin's life (pages 306-307).

Introduction, chapter descriptions, and list of plates also in English.