Images of Amida Coming to Meet the Dying Expressed in Handicrafts in the Early Modern Era: Stories of Genshin and the Japanese Fan

Abstract

Buddhism Painting can easily be considered from the angle of handicrafts and the aspirations of the common people in early modern Buddhism.

There are many connections between images of Amida coming to meet the dying and Genshin 源信. Thanks to the efforts of artists and related stories, as well as wood-block prints, images of Amida coming to meet the dying portrayed on silk fans were widely distributed. Such images were valued by people as relics.