Hiraizumi : Buddhist art and regional politics in twelfth-century Japan /
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Author / Creator: | Yiengpruksawan, Mimi Hall, 1948- |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1998. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 263 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
Language: | English |
Series: | Harvard East Asian monographs ; 171 Harvard East Asian monographs ; 171. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13454847 |
ISBN: | 9781684173136 1684173132 0674392051 9780674392052 |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-254) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2017. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2017 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record. |
Summary: | "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 of the ancient Emishi, for centuries rivals to the central Japanese state and only recently reluctant participants in the growing Japanese polity. At Hiraizumi, these rules created a city filled with art, from splendid temples and shrines to landscaped gardens and palatial residences that rivaled in scale and extravagance those found in Kyoto. This building program was at least in part an attempt to use the power of art and architecture to claim a religious and political mandate. At the same time, it was an encounter with a set of concerns that arose from the situation of the Hiraizumi Fujiwara as outsiders in an emergent cultural homogeneity defined by the center in Kyoto." "In this, the first book-length study of Hiraizumi in English, Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan studies the history of the region and the rise of the Hiraizumi Fujiwara and analyzes their remarkable program of construction."--Jacket |
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