Seven Tengu Scrolls. Evil and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism

by Haruko Wakabayashi

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United States. University of Hawaii Press. 2012. Stock ID #219315 Colour and black and white photographic illustrations, xx + 203 pages, index, bibliography, notes, very good in dustjacket. This is a study of visual and textual images of the well-known mythical Japanese creature tengu in medieval Japan, focusing on a late 13th century illustrated hand scroll known as the Tengu zoshi. This half human, half bird trickster

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