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Detail: By analogy with Western illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages, Dr Edgren will introduce a genre of East Asian Buddhist manuscripts. Generally written with gold and silver ink on dark indigo-dyed paper, these Buddhist works feature drawn frontispiece illustrations. Dr Edgren will suggest that while the early adoption of printed Buddhist sutras with elaborate woodcut frontispieces stifled the growth of illuminated manuscripts in China, state support for Buddhism in Korea contributed to their rapid development, and a strong Buddhist culture and keen sense of illustrative design promoted their spread across Japan.
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