The Eyes of Power : : Art and Early Tokugawa Authority / / Karen Margaret Gerhart.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Gerhart, Karen Margaret,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1999]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; The eyes of power --; 1. Pine Trees as Political Iconography at Nijō Castle --; 2. Chinese Exemplars and Virtuous Rulers at Nagoya Castle --; 3. Nikkō’s Yōmeimon: Sculpture and Sacred Landscape --; 4. The Tōshō Daigongen engi as Political Propaganda --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824864705; 9783110649680; 9783110564150
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824864705
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Karen Margaret Gerhart.

In this study of the political thrust behind some of the most important officially sponsored art of the early Tokugawa, Karen Gerhart takes as her focus the heyday of the rule of the third Tokugawa shogun, Iemitsu. She analyzes aspects of painting, architecture and sculpture created expressly under the patronage of Iemitsu at three major monuments - the castles an Nijo and Nagoya and the sumptuous decoration of the great Tokugawa mausoleum, Nikko Toshogu. In highlighting key examples of artistic production, Gerhart brings to the fore significant themes and issues that exemplify political art in the first half of the 17th century.