Hiraizumi - Buddhist Art and Regional Politics in Twelfth-Century Japan

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-674-39205-2
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 171, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 197 mm x 275 mm, Gewicht: 934 g

Reihe: Harvard East Asian Monographs

In the twelfth century, along 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 rulers created a city filled with art, in an attempt to use the power of art and architecture to claim a religious and political mandate. In the first book-length study of Hiraizumi in English, the author studies the rise of the Hiraizumi Fujiwara and analyzes their remarkable construction program. She traces the strategies by which the Hiraizumi Fujiwara attempted to legitimate their rule and grounds the splendor of Hiraizumi in the desires, political and personal, of the men and women who sponsored and displayed that art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yiengpruksawan, Mimi Hall

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Religiöse Themen

Über Autor(innen)

Yiengpruksawan, Mimi Hall
Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan is Professor of Japanese Art History at Yale University.