Innocent Cemetery - Inosanbochi

Japanese: イノサン墓地 - いのさんぼち
Innocent Cemetery - Inosanbochi

...On the other hand, in Western Europe, the skull became a symbol of death late, in the 15th century. At that time, the idea of ​​"memento mori" (remembering death) and the painting of the "Dance of Death (Danse Macabre)" captured people's attention, and in the Innocents Cemetery in Paris, the many skulls and other bones displayed in the ossuaries in the cloisters taught people that death is inevitable and therefore that it is pointless to indulge in the joys of life (Huisinga, "Autumn of the Middle Ages"). It was only after the end of the 15th century that Dürer and the Holbein brothers began to like to paint skulls and skeletons. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Innocent Cemetery" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…一方,西欧ではどくろを死の象徴としたのは遅く,15世紀になってからである。当時,〈死を想え(メメント・モリ)〉の思想と〈死の舞踏(ダンス・マカブル)〉の絵とが人々をとらえ,パリのイノサン墓地では,回廊の納骨棚にさらされた多数のどくろやその他の骨が人々に死が来るのは必定であること,したがっていたずらに生の歓びをむさぼることの空しいことを説いていた(ホイジンガ《中世の秋》)。デューラー,ホルバイン兄弟らが好んでどくろや骸骨を描いたのは15世紀末以降のことである。…

※「イノサン墓地」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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