The Eighty-Eight
George F. Thompson (Verlag)
978-1-960521-14-9 (ISBN)
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The Eighty-Eight Temple Pilgrimage, on the island of Shikoku in Japan, consists of walking to eighty-eight Buddhist temples and numerous other sacred sites along a circular route of about 1,200 kilometers (746 miles). Its legendary status is rooted in the life of the monk Kūkai (774–855 CE), who trained and performed miracles at some of the sites along the path. Kūkai (later known as Kōbō Daishi) would found the Shingon sect of Buddhism in Japan, and devotees would embark on this pilgrimage to honor him. Today, individuals take on the pilgrimage for various reasons: from religious devotion to the physical and mental challenges of completing the circuit and the chance to experience Japan’s natural beauty and vernacular landscapes.
As photographer William Wylie approached his sixtieth birthday, he saw an opportunity to mark the auspicious occasion with a symbolic journey, one that would offer some kind of transformative experience and allow him to indulge in his enduring interest in rambling. Not a practicing Buddhist but with a deep connection to nature and an interest in the power of places, he arrived prepared for austere temples and raked stone gardens on the Shikoku trek. What he found in between the eighty-eight temples was equally provocative and memorable to experiencing the temples themselves. Everywhere he walked a landscape spread out before him like a beautiful accident, where the aim of the day’s walking was immersion, to slow down and “listen for the crickets behind the bath house,” as Issa, the famous Haiku poet, would say.
The Eighty-Eight: Photographs from a Japanese Pilgrimage features ninety-one of Wylie’s captivating photographs from his journey as well as an introductory essay by the noted writer Pico Iyer, who writes, “What you seek may be nowhere but right here, right now, and William Wylie offers that truth with rich surprise and depth as he walks along a path that can teach many of us, profoundly, how to live.”
William Wylie is Commonwealth Professor of Art at the University of Virginia. His photographs and films have been shown nationally and internationally, including 100 Great American Photographs at the Amon Carter Museum, Pompeii: Photographs and Fragments at the Yale University Art Gallery, Route 36 at the Joslyn Art Museum, and Visions du Reel at the International Film Festival in Switzerland. Wylie work can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Yale University Art Museum, among others. His previous books of photographs are: Riverwalk: Explorations Along the Cache LA Poudre River (University Press of Colorado, 2000), Stillwater (Nazraeli Press, 2002), Carrara (Center for American Places, 2009), Route 36 (Flood Editions, 2010), Pompeii Archive (Yale University Press, 2018), and A Prairie Season (Flood Editions, 2020), all concerned with recognizing how landscapes are created and transformed and how we find our places in them. Pico Iyer is the author of seventeen books, which are translated into twenty-three languages, including those whose subject is Japan: A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations (2019), Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells (2019), and The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto (1991), all published by Alfred A. Knopf.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.4.2026 |
|---|---|
| Einführung | Pico Iyer |
| Zusatzinfo | 91 color photographs by the author |
| Verlagsort | VA |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 280 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst |
| ISBN-10 | 1-960521-14-4 / 1960521144 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-960521-14-9 / 9781960521149 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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