书名：Hell in Japanese Art/看见地狱 牛鬼蛇神

出版：PIE International，2017

作者：PIE International

装帧：平装，592页

语种：日文&英文

尺寸：21x30.5 cm

本书是富有想象力（甚至幽默感）的插图集，汇聚了关于地狱和其他地下世界的日本艺术，为艺术家和插画提供重要参考。书中收集了大量的杰作，通过作品细节和局部放大图，展示了从12至19世纪日本艺术中对于地狱的描绘。这些图像是值得观赏、发人深省、可怕、邪恶且滑稽有趣。书中聚焦于被视为日本国宝或重要文化遗产的作品，包括著名艺术家狩野一信（Kazunobu Kano）、耳鸟斋（Nhichosai）、月冈芳年（Yoshitoshi Tsukioka）和河锅晓斋（Kyosai Kawanabe）等对地狱的各种描绘。这是艺术家、插画家和任何对地狱题材感兴趣之人必不可少的书籍。这本书还收录了19世纪雕版印刷的《往生要集》（ōjōyōshū），其作者为中世纪佛教高僧源信（Genshin，942-1017），并配有现代双语文本。这部写于985年颇具影响力的佛教著作经常被拿来与但丁（Dante，1265-1321）的《神曲》（La Divina Commedia）相比较。据地狱中的残酷场景显示，一个人可能因生活中产生的有害行为或十殿阎罗的审判而遭受痛苦和残酷对待。这些关于地狱的概念对日本佛教绘画和随后的其他文本中起到了经久不衰的启发作用，尤其是从中世纪开始，并且在本书收录的绘画中得以生动诠释。

A collection of imaginative (and even humorous) illustrations of hell and other underworld realms in Japanese art works. A great reference for artists and illustrators.

This art book showcases depictions of hell in Japanese art from the 12th century to the 19th century. It features a large collection of masterpieces presented with details and enlargements from the works. These images are of aesthetic, thought-provoking, frightening and wickedly funny.

The single-volume collection focuses primarily on works designated as Japanese National Treasures or Important Cultural Properties and features the various depictions of hell by prominent artists such as Kazunobu Kano, Nhichosai, Yoshitoshi Tsukioka and Kyosai Kawanabe. It is a must-see for artists, illustrators and anyone interested in representations of hell.

This volume also features the 19th century woodblock-printed edition of Ojoyoshu (The Essentials of Rebirth in the Pure Land) written by the medieval Buddhist monk Genshin (942 - 1017) and is accompanied by modern bilingual text. Written in 985, this influential Buddhist text is often compared with Dante's La Divina Commedia (La Divine Comedie/The Divine Comedy). Its brutal scenes of underworld realms display the suffering and cruelty one might endure as a consequence of harmful acts committed in life or the judgement by the Ten Kings of Hell. These ideas of hell in Ojoyoshu have played an enduring role in inspiring Japanese Buddhist paintings and other subsequent texts, particularly from the medieval period onward, and are vividly portrayed in the painting featured in this volume.

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