Nara: Sacred Images from Early Japan – The British Museum
The British Museum presents 15 major Buddhist and Shinto sacred images 600 – 1300 from Nara Prefecture, leading up to Japanese Olympic and Paralympic Games 2020
Shinto
A Torrent of Colour
Shinto, or the Way of the Gods was the earliest Japanese philosophy and religion, whose intellectual and spiritual ideas formed the foundation for the creation of gardens. The Lady Murasaki Shikibu, during the Heian period (794-1185), in her novel The Tale of the Genji written a thousand years ago recorded…