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songyou mandara@‘ΈŒ`™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 ‚瑉ζ (painting based on the theories of Buddhist/Shinto unity). They include: (1) suijaku mandara ‚η‘™ΦδΆ—… (also more properly, sujiakugyou mandara ‚η‘Œ`™ΦδΆ—…, or suijakushin mandara ‚瑐_™ΦδΆ—…) in which the deities *kami _ are represented as Japanese courtiers, Buddhist monks (see *sougyou hachiman ‘mŒ`”ͺ”¦), young boys *douji “ΆŽq, or Chinese ladies; (2) honji mandara –{’n™ΦδΆ—… (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 –{η‘™ΦδΆ—… (abbreviation of honji suijaku mandara –{’n‚η‘™ΦδΆ—… ) 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 _“Ή”όp, *Kasuga mandara t“ϊ™ΦδΆ—…, *Sannou mandara ŽR‰€™ΦδΆ—…, *Kumano mandara ŒF–μ™ΦδΆ—…@
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