{"id":1438,"date":"2017-10-04T01:49:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T06:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2020-07-20T03:59:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T08:59:14","slug":"daikokuten-iconography-in-japan-from-hindu-destroyer-to-buddhist-protector-to-japanese-santa-claus-over-300-annotated-photos-copious-reference-notes-47-slides-oct-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/?p=1438","title":{"rendered":"Daikokuten Iconography in Japan — From Hindu Destroyer to Buddhist Protector to Japanese Santa Claus. Over 300 annotated photos, copious reference notes, 47 slides. Oct. 2017."},"content":{"rendered":"

The main goal of Condensed Visual Classroom Guide — Daikokuten Iconography in Japan<\/a> is to illustrate \u201cvisually\u201d Japan\u2019s taming of a demonic, bloodthirsty, flesh-eating, multi-limbed Vedic \/ Indic \/ Hindu deity. Today, this Hindu deity (Mah\u0101k\u0101la, a \u201cterrible\u201d form of \u015aiva<\/span>) is portrayed as a harmless, human-like, potbellied, jolly fellow in Japan\u2019s religious pantheon. His Japanese name is\u00a0Daikokuten<\/span>.\u00a0Today Daikokuten remains one of Japan\u2019s most popular gods of good fortune (e.g., abundant harvests, well-stocked kitchens, lucrative livelihoods). In his standard modern form \u2013 portly, dwarfish, jovial, wearing a hat, holding a treasure sack, traveling everywhere to dispense fortune to the people \u2013 he is strikingly similar to the Christian world\u2019s Santa Claus.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The second goal is to underscore the strong influence of India (rather than China) on Japan\u2019s pantheon of gods. In many ways, the religious landscape in Japan is more akin to Japanese Hinduism than to Chinese Buddhism.\u00a0The third goal is to provide scholars, art historians, curators, teachers, & students with a \u201cjumpstart\u201d visual guide to the richness & dynamic complexity of Japan\u2019s religious art. Nearly two millennium of \u015aiva artwork is organized chronologically & thematically herein. Given space limits, the guide\u2019s \u201cvisual canvas\u201d includes art from only India, Central Asia, China, & Japan. Center stage is given to Japanese art from the 9th to 21st centuries.<\/p>\n

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The main goal of Condensed Visual Classroom Guide — Daikokuten Iconography in Japan is to illustrate \u201cvisually\u201d Japan\u2019s taming of a demonic, bloodthirsty, flesh-eating, multi-limbed Vedic \/ Indic \/ Hindu deity. Today, this Hindu deity (Mah\u0101k\u0101la, a \u201cterrible\u201d form of \u015aiva) is portrayed as a harmless, human-like, potbellied, jolly fellow in Japan\u2019s religious pantheon. His […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[50,51,43,44,49,47,45,48,46],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daikokuten","tag-benzaiten","tag-bishamonten","tag-daikoku","tag-daikokuten","tag-ebisu","tag-ganesh","tag-mahakala","tag-seven-lucky-gods","tag-siva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmarkproductions.com\/Buddha-Statues\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}