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"Yoshimasa may have been the worst shogun ever to rule Japan. He was a failure as a soldier, incompetent at dealing with state business, and dominated by his wife. But his influence on the cultural life of Japan was unparalleled. According to Donald Keene, Yoshimasa was the only shogun to leave a lasting heritage for the entire Japanese people." "Today Yoshimasa is remembered primarily as the builder of the Temple of the Silver Pavilion and as the ruler at the time of the Onin War (1467-1477), after which the authority of the shogun all but disappeared. Unable to control the daimyos - provincial military governors - he abandoned politics and devoted himself to the quest for beauty. It was then, after Yoshimasa resigned as shogun and made his home in the mountain retreat now known as the Silver Pavilion, that his aesthetic taste came to define that of the Japanese: the no theater flourished, Japanese gardens were developed, and the tea ceremony had its origins in a small room at the Silver Pavilion. Flower arrangement, ink painting, and shoin-zukua-i architecture began or became of major importance under Yoshimasa. Poets introduced their often barely literate warlord-hosts to the literary masterpieces of the past and taught them how to compose poetry. Even the most barbarous warlord came to want the trappings of culture that would enable him to feel like a civilized man." "Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion gives this long-neglected but critical period in Japanese history the thorough treatment it deserves."--Jacket.
Shoguns --- Ashikaga, Yoshimasa, --- Yoshimasa, --- Higashiyama, Yoshimasa, --- 足利義政, --- Ginkakuji (Kyoto, Japan) --- Jishōji (Kyoto, Japan) --- 慈照寺 (Kyoto, Japan) --- 銀閣寺 (Kyoto, Japan) --- Japan --- History --- J2284.50 --- J3350 --- J6561 --- J1810.42 --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- Muromachi, Ashikaga, Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods (1392-1615) --- Japan: History -- Chūsei -- Muromachi period, Ashikaga bakufu (1392-1573) --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- architecture -- religious buildings --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- temples and monasteries, pilgrimage -- Kyōto city --- Ginkakuji (Kyoto, Japan).
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"Examines the vast Kantō region as a locus of cultural identity and an object of familial attachment during the political and military turmoil of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries in Japan"--Provided by publisher.
Place attachment --- Group identity --- Elite (Social sciences) --- J4000.50 --- J4190.10 --- J3410 --- J3350 --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Attachment to place --- Places, Attachment to --- Attachment behavior --- Environmental psychology --- Elites (Social sciences) --- Leadership --- Power (Social sciences) --- Social classes --- Social groups --- History --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Muromachi, Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods (1392-1615) --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- local communities and culture -- Honshū and Kantō region --- Japan: Geography and local history -- Kantō region, greater Tōkyō --- Japan: History -- Chūsei -- Muromachi period, Ashikaga bakufu (1392-1573) --- Kantō Region (Japan) --- Japan --- Social conditions --- History of Asia --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599
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