Efficacious underworld: the evolution of Ten Kings paintings in medieval China and Korea

Contents

Images of the Ten Kings : early traces -- Transitional link from handscroll to individualized hanging scrolls : the former Packard set -- Full efflorescence in Southern Song Ningbo -- Post-Song variations -- Buddhist rituals and the Ten Kings paintings in Koryŏ -- The scripture on the Ten Kings from Haein-sa (1246) -- Introduction to the Seikadō Ten Kings -- The Seikadō Ten Kings as iconic images -- Northern Song figure-painting styles in the Seikadō Ten Kings -- Northern Song landscape- and flower-painting styles in the Seikadō Ten Kings -- Ritual context : royal ancestral worship in the Buddhist style.