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135 Sources for Art Works Described or Reproduced Some of the paintings I mention are general descriptions, but others are very specific, found in the following sources. When I drew from a picture, I took only a few of the artist’s hints and mixed in Dad’s life. Quotations are also cited here. Dug Up Kuan Yin, page 1 “Water-Moon Kuan Yin” on a stele, dated 1096 c.e., found in an excellent book by Chün-fang Yü, Kuan-yin: The Chinese Transformation of Avalokiteśvara (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), 243–44. I am also grateful to Professor Yü for telling me which of her pictures are inaccessible in temples and which are catalogued in museums, so I might query about them. Pilgrim Gifts, page 4 This picture is by Chao I, dated 1313. Courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. Water Pill, page 8 Water and Moon Kuan-yin (Shui-yueh Kuan-yin), Chinese, late thirteenth–early fourteenth century. Hanging scroll, ink, slight color and gold on silk, 43 ¾ x 30 inches (111.12 x 76.20 cm). Courtesy of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of 136 The Moon in the Water Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Purchase: Nelson Trust, 49–60. Photograph by Jamison Miller. The Moon in the Computer, page 11 The epigraph is from the Great Prajñā-pāramitā Sūtra, quoted in Yü, Kuan-yin, 236. Waterfall ID, page 14 I saw this picture in a journal called Sekai bijutsu zenshu (Tokyo, 1965): 99. Yankee Moon, page 21 I describe a picture from Yü, Kuan-yin, 96: the frontispiece of the Fo-shuo Kuan-shih-yin chiu-k’u ching, printed and donated by Imperial Concubine Cheng between 1573 and 1615. The upside-down bird in this drawing must be a version of the kind of diving bird that appears in the illustration for “Pilgrim Gifts.” For a picture of my dad with his Yankee screwdriver, see also “Moon Rings,” 90. Transferring the Willow, page 25 Ink and color on silk, dated 943 c.e., found in Cornelius P. Chang, “Kuan-Yin Paintings from Tun-Huang: WaterMoon Kuan-Yin,” Journal of Oriental Studies 15.2 (1977), 147–48 and Plate 1. The painting has a male Kuan Yin, with a mustache, but I changed the Kuan Yin in my story to female. Willy Moon, page 29 Frontispiece of the Pai-i Ta-pei wu-yin-hsin t’o-lo-ni ching, dated 1603, in Yü, Kuan-yin, 95, 97. Artsy Crappy Moon, page 32 I saw the picture I describe, “Kannon with Willow Branch,” at an exhibit at the Honolulu Academy of Arts in 2002. [35.168.18.209] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 11:02 GMT) Reflections on an aging PaRent 137 That hanging scroll, with colors on silk, came from Hōjuin Temple, Japan, and is originally from Korea, Koryō period (918–1392 c.e.). Since the scroll was so hard to see through the soot, I made up my own picture. Will is in the middle, and Dad is in the wheelchair. I took the liberty of giving Kuan Yin’s usual high headpiece a hat brim and a feather lei, and I gave her a shower-tree sprig instead of a willow branch. Moon Body, page 37 I saw this Kuan Yin picture once in the Asian Art Museum, Seattle, and am writing from memory and from my scribbled notes of the visit. Kuan Yin Prescription, page 39 The quotations in the first paragraph are from Yü, Kuan-yin, 237–38. Riding the Tides in the Handi-Van, page 44 I saw this tenth-century poster, called “Kuan Yin Appears in Twenty-Four Manifestations,” in Yü, Kuan-yin, 230. She says it’s originally from Zuzōbu, volume 6 of the Taishō Tripitaka. For my picture, I put the two Water-Moon Kuan Yins from the top corners of the poster side by side, on their cupcake-shaped rocks. I turned the Kuan Yins into passengers, waiting for the Handi-Van to come back. The Xerox of my dad’s official Handi-Van card shows up the little moon ring over his face very well. The two Chinese characters at the bottom say “water” and “moon.” Peace Moon, page 50 My drawing is more or less based on the same tenthcentury poster, called “Kuan Yin Appears in Twenty-Four 138 The Moon in the Water Manifestations,” in Yü, Kuan-yin, 230. This time I...