E-toki Buddhist Picture Telling

E-toki Buddhist Picture Telling

E-toki (picture deciphering, or picture explaining) refers to a Japanese Buddhist practice of using an emaki (hand picture, a painted hand scroll) or picture halls (rooms with pictures either painted onto the walls, or containing a series of hanging scrolls) to explain a Buddhist principal.

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    “And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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