Article: PHOTOGRAPHY

In 1985 Takashi Takagi, a Japanese art director, commissioned Manabu Yamanaka to photograph the street people of Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka who seemed to him to fit the guise of Buddhist arhats (traditional spiritual beings who have attained enlightenment and are detached from all earthly desires, transcending even life and death).

Takashi Takagi had long been interested in Buddhist art and was particularly inspired by the Tang dynasty artist Guanxiu's arhat style. Historically there were 16 high- level disciples of the Buddha who vowed to defend the faith of Buddhism in ancient India. These disciples are worshipped as the 16 arhats, traditionally depicted in paintings as wizened figures in ...

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