Artworks

Diamond Mountains (ten-panel screen)

Artwork · Anonymous · 19th century · byōbu

A folk screen of the Diamond Mountains with the famous sites labelled in red — a subject of religious significance in Buddhism (the needle-like peaks recall the vajra), Daoism (the land of the immortals) and shamanism (rocks like animals and spirits). 1 Portal 2000, pp. 153–154, fig. 83. ↩ Literatur Portal 2000: Jane Portal, Korea: Art and Archaeology, London: British Museum Press 2000.