zuzou　図像

KEY WORD :　art history / paintings

Iconographic sketches of Buddhist images done in simple ink drawing (see *hakubyou 白描). These outline drawings were handed down and copied by monks or artists working for Buddhist institutions to be followed as standards when executing religious paintings of deities. In many cases lay people also copied zuzou as a ritualistic act to achieve merit. The ink iconographic drawings of the Goddess of Mercy Hakubyou Kannon zuzou. 白描観音図像 which have the day that they were painted noted by the devotee on them are examples of zuzou. The major early zuzou have been compiled in JIKKANSHOU 十巻抄 (Selections in Ten Chapters, 1310), aiso called *ZUZOUSHOU 図像抄, and *BESSON ZAKKI 別尊雑記 (12c) which are included in the Buddhist anthology TAISHOU SHINSHUU DAIZOUKYOU 大正新脩大蔵経.

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