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songyou mandara@Έ`ΦδΆ | ||||||
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Lit. mandala in the form used for worship. Devotional paintings (usually on large hanging scrolls) showing the deities of a shrine appearing in human forms. The deities are dressed either in their Shinto or Buddhist attire and arranged in geometric composition as seen in the Buddhist mandala *mandara ΦδΆ . A type of suijakuga ηζ (painting based on the theories of Buddhist/Shinto unity). They include: (1) suijaku mandara ηΦδΆ , also more properly, suijiakugyou mandara η`ΦδΆ , or suijakushin mandara η_ΦδΆ , in which the deities *kami _ are represented as Japanese courtiers, Buddhist monks (see *sougyou hachiman m`ͺ¦), young boys *douji Άq, or Chinese ladies; (2) honji mandara {nΦδΆ , also more properly honjibutsu mandara {n§ΦδΆ , in which the kami are represented in the form of their Buddhist counterparts *honjibutsu {n§; and (3) honjaku mandara {ηΦδΆ , abbreviation of honji suijaku mandara {nηΦδΆ , in which the kami are represented in both their suijaku and honjibutsu forms. As opposed to songyou mandara, devotional paintings of the landscape of a shrine and its surrounding area without the depiction of a kami in its human form are called *miya mandara {ΦδΆ . | ||||||
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*Shintou bijutsu _Ήόp, *Kasuga mandara tϊΦδΆ , *Sannou mandara R€ΦδΆ , *Kumano mandara FμΦδΆ @ | ||||||
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