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Studies of Japanese Art by Period
Kamakura through Nanbokucho (1185-1392)
For a good, short introduction to Kamakura scroll paintings, calligraphy, and
swords, see the handsome exhibition catalogue (no editor named) called Court
and Samurai in an Age of Transition (New York: Japan Society, 1990). For a useful
text surveying this last great age of Japanese sculpture, see Victor Harris and Ken
Matsushima, Kamakura: The Renaissance of Japanese Sculpture, 1185-1333
(London: British Museum, 1991). Also of value, especially for the illustrations,
is Hisashi Mori, Sculpture of the Kamakura Period, translated by Katherine
Eickmann (New York: Weatherhill, 1974). On a narrower topic, see Hisashi Mori, Japanese
Portrait Sculpture, translated and adapted by W. Chie Ishibashi (New York: Kodansha
International, 1977).
For Pure Land Buddhist paintings, see the work by Okazaki listed under Heian
period, and also Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis, "Visions of a Transcendent Realm:
Pure Land Images in the Cleveland Museum of Art," Bulletin of the Cleveland
Museum of Art 78, no. 7 (November 1991): 274-300. For secular and religious
handscrolls, see Dietrich Seckel, Emakimono: The Art of the Japanese Printed
Hand-scroll, translated by J. Maxwell Brownjohn (New York: Pantheon, 1972); Miyeko
Murase, Emaki: Narrative Scrolls from Japan (New York: Asia Society, 1983);
Hideo Okudaira, Narrative Picture Scrolls, adapted by Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis
(New York: Weatherhill, 1973); Hideo Okudaira, Emaki: Japanese Picture Scrolls
(Rutland, Vt.: Charles E. Tuttle, 1962); and Saburo Ienaga, Painting in the Yamato
Style, translated by John M. Shields (New York: Weatherhill, 1973). A Ph.D. dissertation
by Karen L. Brock deserves special mention: Tales of Gisho and Gangyo: Editor,
Artist, and Audience in Japanese Picture Scrolls (Princeton University, 1984).
On Shinto material see two books by Haruki Kageyama: The Arts of Shinto,
translated and adapted by Christine Guth (New York: Weatherhill, 1973), and Shinto
Arts, translated by Christine Guth Kanda (New York: Japan Society, 1976), the
latter an exhibition catalogue and therefore somewhat less comprehensive than the
first title. More specialized is Susan C. Tyler, The Cult of Kasuga Seen through
Its Art (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992).
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