The seven tengu scrolls : evil and the rhetoric of legitimacy in medieval Japanese Buddhism /

This is a study of visual and textual images of the mythical creature tengu from the late Heian (897-1185) to the late Kamakura (1185-1333) periods. Popularly depicted as half-bird, half-human creatures with beaks or long noses, wings, and human bodies, tengu today are commonly seen as guardian spir...

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Main Author: Wakabayashi, Haruko Nishioka, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2012]
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