Black Robe, White Mist: Art of the Japanese Buddhist Nun Rengetsu by Melanie Eastburn

Black Robe, White Mist: Art of the Japanese Buddhist Nun Rengetsu

Melanie Eastburn

148 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

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Rengetsu (1791-1875), whose name translates as Lotus Moon, was a Japanese Buddhist nun whose tragic life inspired extraordinary creativity. One of a very few successful female artists in nineteenth-century Japan, Rengetsu was primarily a poet and ...

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