[KS] Re: Uisang Paiting

Yong-ho Choe choeyh at hawaii.edu
Tue Jun 20 15:54:19 EDT 2000


Dear Professor Pak:
   Thanks for your information.  I am relieved to know that the work is well known.  Also, I wish to stand corrected in the number of rolls or volumes I cited earlier.  The correct number is five rolls (kwOn in Korean or maki in Japanese) for Uisang and four rolls for Wonhyo.



At 06:04 AM 6/20/2000 -1000, Youngsook Pak wrote:
>Dear Prof. Choe,
>
>This important set of scrolls, known as Kegon engi (The Foundation
>Story of the Avatamsaka School) in Japanese, is very well known among
>art-historians of East Asian Art. Indeed the scroll depicts the lives
>of Uisang (in Japanese Gisho) and Wonhyo (Gengyo), with rather more
>about Uisang. These two eminent  monks of Silla were regarded as
>the founders of Haedong Hwaom, which gave a renewed influence
>to Japan during the Kamakura period. There are several studies on these
>scrolls, among them a PhD thesis from Princeton. The scrolls are
>illustrated in full in the publication Emakimono zenshu (complete
>narrative scrolls).
>
>Youngsook Pak
>Department of Art & Archaeology
>School of Oriental & African Studies
>University of London
>
Yong-ho Choe, Professor
Department of History
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI  96822

Tel: 808 956-6762
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