suijaku　垂迹

KEY WORD :　art history / general terms

Lit. trace manifestation. The equivalent for *kami 神, god, in the pairing of Buddhist and Shinto deities called *honji suijaku 本地垂迹. Thus suijaku is the very concept that Japanese Shinto deities are manifestations of the Buddhist ones which latter are therefore the actual deities.

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*Shintou bijutsu 神道美術, *honjibutsu 本地仏

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