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Traveling by Boat in Kumcmo shows fall; in addition to being a major site
Bunchó's supreme mastery of his of the Shugendô mountain cult, it was
métier. Its delicate brushwork in the considered the earthly manifestation
so-called blue-and-green manner of the Pure Land of Amida (Sanskrit:
gently defines the unique rock forma- Amitabha) Buddha. Bunchó's rendi-
tions and colorful villages with a tion of Kumano, furnished with labels
pleasing lyricism. Bunchô may have that recall the mapping tradition, has
visited the Kumano region when he the air of a picturesque tourist spot
went to Nagasaki to study painting in rather than a site of pilgrimage and
his youth. One of Japan's holiest sites, salvation. MT
Kumano was home to three great
shrines and the famed Ñachi Water-
