Amidaji: Emperor Antoku's Mortuary Temple and its Culture

Naoko Gunji (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

2022
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-51252-8 (ISBN)

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How do you reconstruct a tradition of religious art wiped out by another religion? Naoko Gunji takes up this challenging question in Amidaji. Amidaji was a Buddhist temple in western Japan that, from the twelfth century onwards, overlooked the strait of Dannoura and commemorated the tragic protagonists of The Tale of the Heike who perished in the strait at the end of the Genpei War (1180–1185)―the Heike or the Taira clan and the child-emperor Antoku (1178–1185). Amidaji was destroyed, however, in 1870 amid a nativist, royalist movement of persecuting Buddhism, and replaced by an imperial Shinto shrine. Its art, architecture, and rituals were lost, and have until now been understood through the lens of the current shrine and a few surviving objects. By investigating numerous historical sources and artistic, literary, religious, political, and ideological contexts, Gunji reveals a carefully coordinated program of visual art and rituals for the salvation of Antoku and the Taira.

Naoko Gunji, Ph.D. (2007), University of Pittsburgh, is Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has published articles on the history of Japanese art and material culture including “Heike Paintings in the Early Edo Period: Edification and Ideology for Elite Men and Women” (Archives of Asian Art, 2017).

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2022
Reihe/Serie	Japanese Visual Culture ; 21
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	1060 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	90-04-51252-7 / 9004512527
ISBN-13	978-90-04-51252-8 / 9789004512528
Zustand	Neuware