The Eyes of Power : : Art and Early Tokugawa Authority / / 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1999] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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