Emma-O

GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Emma-O is the Japanese version of Yama, the Hindu god of death and Judge of the Dead. He was one of the Ten Kings of Buddhism (Ju-O) and leader of a panel of ten judges known as the kings of hell. Each king was believed to preside over his own court, through which the newly deceased must pass and receive judgment. 

During the Heian period (794-1185), the idea of t

An Inca (Inka) Tunic

GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The following excerpt was written in 2003 by Carol Robbins, the former Ellen and Harry S. Parker III Curator of the Arts of Americas and the Pacific, for the publication Dallas Museum of Art, 100 Years.

Asura

GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In 1181, the Buddhist king Jayavarman VII drove the Cham from Khmer territory and established his rule over Angkor, the city that had been the seat of the Khmer since the 9th century.