A Comparative Study of the Relationship between Literature and Pictures in China, Korea, and Japan

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From point of view of iconology Prof. Hayashi, Hikita, Higo, and Associate Prof.Watari tudied Buddhist narrative literature. Similarly Prof. Tokuda and Lecturer Ikezawa studied Confucian narrative literature, and analyzed the literary paintings (Chinese style landscape paintings)Prof. Hayashi and Associate Prof. Watari visited Dazu, Chongging in China, and surveyed several famous stone caves as Bao ding shan, Bei shan, etc.. They both attended a lecture by Mr. Guo Xiang Ying of the curator of the Dazu Caved Stone Museum. That led Prof.Hayashi to write a paper on Goshushoshirir (a five-cornered Buddhist picture in a circle showing the zther five worlds). Prof. Hinata investigated the development of Nigabyakudo (one of the patterns of Jodoism paintings) and compared the Shamanism of Japan with that of Korea as he exchanging views on Jodoism among Korean scholars and Chinise scholars. He investigated how the narrative of Tenningosui (the five symptoms of aging for heavenly beeings) influenced on The Tale of Genji.Associate Prof. Watari pointed it out that Sainokawara (the Children's Limbo) shows the paticular thought of the other world among the Japanese people, and heProf. Tokuda considered Nijyushiko (twenty-four stories of filial duty) from the point of view of the comparative literature and analyzed that from both Japanese and Chinese angles. He also studied those illustrations.Lecturer Ikezawa visited Yang zhou in China, where those literary painters who were called Yang zhou Ba quai used to live, and he collected materials of the literary paintings for study. He studied Chinese poetry, the literary paintings and the spirit of the literary artists, and he brought the tripartite relation among them into sharp relief.