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Article: PHOTOGRAPHY
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 14, 1994
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1994 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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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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