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Hiraizumi : Buddhist art and regional politics in twelfth-century Japan /

"In the twelfth century, along what were then the borders of the Japanese state in northern Honshu, three generations of local rulers built a capital city at Hiraizumi that became a major military and commercial center. Known as the Hiraizumi Fujiwara, these local powerholders were descendents...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yiengpruksawan, Mimi Hall, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1998.
Colección:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 171.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • HIRAIZUMI
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CONTENTS
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • PART I FOUNDATIONS
  • 1 THE EMISHI
  • The Unruled East
  • The Emishi
  • Hitakami
  • The Northern World
  • Taking the East
  • Buddhist Strategies
  • Barbarians over Barbarians
  • The Emishi Wars
  • 2 THE KITAKAMI RULERS
  • The Fushū
  • Rebellion in the North
  • A New Political Order
  • The Ōshū Wars
  • Kitakami Buddhism
  • A Fushū Nation?
  • PART II ART AND POLITICS AT HIRAIZUMI
  • 3 KIYOHIRA
  • Kiyohira
  • Hiraizumi
  • Chūsonji
  • Another Temple
  • Sutra of Gold and Silver
  • Symbolisms
  • 4 MOTOHIRA AND HRNEHIRA
  • Contests for Legitimacy
  • Strategies of Culture
  • Motohira
  • Hidehira
  • Hiraizumi
  • Mōtsūji
  • Kanjizaiōin
  • Muryōkōin
  • Sutra in Blue and Gold
  • A Splendid Domain
  • 5 A REALM OF GOLD
  • House of Gold
  • The Mummies in the Altar
  • Three Generations at Konjikido
  • Meaning in Anomaly
  • The Sutra Repository
  • Housing the Canon
  • Wutaishan Monju
  • A Golden World
  • PART III POWER IN ART
  • 6 THE FALL OF HIRAIZUMI
  • Crisis and Demise
  • A Final Transcription
  • King Kinrin
  • Prophylaxis
  • 7 ART AND MANDATE
  • The Capital of Artists
  • Art Rhetoric
  • Heterologie
  • REFERENCE MATTER
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • HARVARD EAST ASIAN MONOGRAPHS