The Temples of Kyoto
by Richie, DonaldFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1995-10-15
Publisher(s): Tuttle Pub
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Summary
Donald Richie, the dean of art critics in Japan, offers a guided tour of the marvellous temples of Japans ancient capital, Kyoto. Richie presents twenty-one turns temples with authoritative scholarship and an eye for the dramatic, drawing on such classic sources as The Tale of Genji and Essays in Idleness. First on the itinerary is a comprehensive history of Japanese Buddhism narrating the development of these celestial-seeming cities. From the Tendai warrior-priests of Enryaku-ji to the floating vision of paradise at Byodo-in, the past springs eternal in the Temples of Kyoto. Share the thrills in hundreds of brilliant photographs of the temples.
Author Biography
The author, Donald Richie, internationally known as the foremost Western authority on Japanese film, is also acclaimed for his literary reviews and essays, and has written widely on the culture of the country which has been his home since 1947. Specifically, his novels about Japan have delighted and informed. These include Where Are the Victors?, Companions of the Holdiay, and Tokyo Nights.
The photographer, Alexandre Georges, has had a long and successful career in the arts. As a staff member at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, he met and spent time in the company of Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, and others. He was a friend and colleague of Ansel Adams, with whom he collaborated on a number of shows. In 1976 in honor of the bicentennial of the United States, he was commissioned by the National Academy to provide material on the imporant architecture of the United States in the past 200 years. He is a gold medal recipient of the American Institute of Architects.
The photographer, Alexandre Georges, has had a long and successful career in the arts. As a staff member at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, he met and spent time in the company of Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, and others. He was a friend and colleague of Ansel Adams, with whom he collaborated on a number of shows. In 1976 in honor of the bicentennial of the United States, he was commissioned by the National Academy to provide material on the imporant architecture of the United States in the past 200 years. He is a gold medal recipient of the American Institute of Architects.
Table of Contents
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| Introduction | 11 | (17) | |||
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| Acknowledgments | 150 | (1) | |||
| Bibliography | 151 |
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