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The eyes of power : art and early Tokugawa authority /
In the first half of the seventeenth century both those who commissioned and those who viewed art in Japan were primarily the elite -- the shogun, the court, high-ranking daimyo, government officials, and certain wealthy merchants. Much of the artistic energy engaged by the political center during t...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press,
©1999.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | In the first half of the seventeenth century both those who commissioned and those who viewed art in Japan were primarily the elite -- the shogun, the court, high-ranking daimyo, government officials, and certain wealthy merchants. Much of the artistic energy engaged by the political center during the early Tokugawa was directed at the creation of monumental structures decorated with symbolic and complex images, mainly of Chinese origin, initiated or approved by the shogunate to legitimate its own power and to give its rule an aura of cultured sophistication. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 211 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585342857 9780585342856 9780824864705 0824864700 |