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Author : M. Ichihara,Kyoto (Japan). City Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Kyoto (Japan)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019769470
Author : Reiko Maekawa,Darwin Stapleton,Roberta Wollons
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004435506
The studies in this volume reveal the personal complexities and ambiguities of crossing borders and boundaries, with a focus on modern East Asia. The authors transcend geography-bound border and migration studies by moving beyond the barriers of national borders.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : American literature
ISBN : UIUC:30112109763042
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : American literature
ISBN : CHI:79236616
Author : Gregory P. A. Levine
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0295985402
The Zen Buddhist monastery Daitokuji in Kyoto has long been revered as a cloistered meditation centre, a repository of art treasures, and a wellspring of the "Zen aesthetic." Gregory Levine's Daitokuji unsettles these conventional notions with groundbreaking inquiry into the significant and surprising visual and social identities of sculpture, painting, and calligraphy associated with this fourteenth-century monastery and its enduring monastic and lay communities. The book begins with a study of Zen portraiture at Daitokuji that reveals the precariousness of portrait likeness; the face that gazes out from an abbot's painting or statue may not be who we expect it to be or submit quietly to interpretation. By tracing the life of Daitokuji's famed statue of the chanoyu patriarch Sen no Riky-u (1522-91), which was all but destroyed by the ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-98) but survived in Rash-omon-like narratives and reconstituted sculptural forms, Levine throws light upon the contested status of images and their mytho-poetic potential. Levine then draws from the seventeenth-century journal of K-ogetsu S-ogan, Bokuseki no utsushi, to explore practices of calligraphy connoisseurship at Daitokuji and the pivotal role played by the monastery's abbots within Kyoto art circles. The book's final section explores Daitokuji's annual airings of temple treasures not merely as a practice geared toward preservation but also as a space in which different communities vie for authority over the artistic past. An epilogue follows the peripatetic journey of the monastery's scrolls of the 500 Luohan from China to Japan, to exhibition and partial sale in the West, and back to Daitokuji. Illuminating canonical and heretofore ignored works and mining a trove of documents, diaries, and modern writings, Levine argues for the plurality of Daitokuji's visual arts and the breadth of social and ritual circumstances of art making and viewing within the monastery. This diversity encourages reconsideration of stereotyped notions of "Zen art" and offers specialists and general readers alike opportunity to explore the fertile and sometimes volatile nexus of the visual arts and religious sites in Japan.
Author : Alice Y. Tseng
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824876449
Can an imperial city survive, let alone thrive, without an emperor? Alice Y. Tseng answers this intriguing question in Modern Kyoto, a comprehensive study of the architectural and urban projects carried out in the old capital following Emperor Meiji’s move to Tokyo in 1868. Tseng contends that Kyoto—from the time of the relocation to the height of the Asia-Pacific War—remained critical to Japan’s emperor-centered national agenda as politicians, planners, historians, and architects mobilized the city’s historical connection to the imperial house to develop new public architecture, infrastructure, and urban spaces. Royal births, weddings, enthronements, and funerals throughout the period served as catalysts for fashioning a monumental modern city fit for hosting commemorative events for an eager domestic and international audience. Using a wide range of visual material (including architectural plans, postcards, commercial maps, and guidebooks), Tseng traces the development of four core areas of Kyoto: the palaces in the center, the Okazaki Park area in the east, the Kyoto Station area in the south, and the Kitayama district in the north. She offers an unprecedented framework that correlates nation building, civic boosterism, and emperor reverence to explore a diverse body of built works. Interlinking microhistories of the Imperial Garden, Heian Shrine, Lake Biwa Canal, the prefectural library, zoological and botanical gardens, main railway station, and municipal art museum, among others, her work asserts Kyoto’s vital position as a multifaceted center of culture and patriotism in the expanding Japanese empire. Richly illustrated with many never-before-published photographs and archival sources, Modern Kyoto challenges readers to look beyond Tokyo for signposts of Japan’s urban modernity and opens up the study of modern emperors to incorporate fully built environments and spatial practices dedicated in their name.
Author : Takashi Fujitani
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520920989
Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nationalism, city planning, discipline, gender, memory, and modernity. Focusing on the Meiji Period (1868-1912), Fujitani brings recent methods of cultural history to a study of modern Japanese nationalism for the first time.
Author : Makiko Nakano,Kazuko Smith
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0804724415
This intimate and richly informative diary kept in 1910 by the young wife of a bustling merchant household in Kyoto is an engaging, unique glimpse into the lives of ordinary people in early twentieth-century Japan. Includes 53 illustrations.
Author : Marta Filipová
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351570343
Beyond the great exhibitions, expositions universelles and world fairs in London, Paris or Chicago, numerous smaller, yet ambitious exhibitions took place in provincial cities and towns across the world. Focusing on the period between 1840 and 1940, this volume takes a novel look at the exhibitionary cultures of this period and examines the motivations, scope, and impact of lesser-known exhibitions in, for example, Australia, Japan, Brazil, as well as a number of European countries. The individual case studies included explore the role of these exhibitions in the global exhibitionary network and consider their ?marginality? related to their location and omission by academic research so far. The chapters also highlight a number of important issues from regional or national identities, the role of modernisation and tradition, to the relationship between capital cities and provincial towns present in these exhibitions. They also address the key topic of colonial exhibitions as well as the displays of arts and design in the context of the so-called marginal fairs. Cultures of International Exhibitions 1840-1940: Great Exhibitions in the Margins therefore opens up new angles in the way the global phenomenon of a great exhibition can be examined through the prism of the regional, and will make a vital contribution to those interested in exhibition studies and related fields.
Author : Steven D. Carter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684170456
As direct descendants of the great courtier-poets Fujiwara no Shunzei (1114-1204) and his son Teika (1162-1244), the heirs of the noble Reizei house can claim an unbroken literary lineage that spans over eight hundred years. During all that time, their primary goal has been to sustain the poetic enterprise, or michi (way), of the house and to safeguard its literary assets. Steven D. Carter weaves together strands of family history, literary criticism, and historical research into a coherent narrative about the evolution of the Reizei Way. What emerges from this innovative approach is an elegant portrait of the Reizei poets as participants in a collective institution devoted more to the continuity of family poetic practices and ideals than to the concept of individual expression that is so central to more modern poetic culture. In addition to the narrative chapters, the book also features an extensive appendix of one hundred poems from over the centuries, by poets who were affiliated with the Reizei house. Carter’s annotations provide essential critical context for this selection of poems, and his deft translations underscore the rich contributions of the Reizei family and their many disciples to the Japanese poetic tradition.
Author : Robert M. Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521844843
Showing the relevance of Hegel's arguments, this book discusses both original texts and their interpretations.
Author : Blair A. Ruble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521801796
This book explores how social fragmentation led to pluralistic public policies in Chicago, Moscow, and Osaka.
Author : Robert Hellyer,Harald Fuess
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108478052
This volume examines the Meiji Restoration through a global history lens to re-interpret the formation of a globally-cast, Japanese nation-state.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082987887