Tag: Ritual Art
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Tōdaiji’s Omizutori: Mystery and Otherness Restored
Todaiji Temple’s Omizutori Ritual – & Omizutori Museum Exhibitions in Nara Religious practice in Japan is sometimes tamed by way of museum exhibitions and by the contemporary secular viewer of such exhibitions, making it, whether consciously or not, “mere ritual”: performance art or piece of theatre, political expression, or display of eccentric quirky superstition. It…
Elizabeth Tinsley
ART & RITUAL JAPAN 