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The Great Age of Japanese buddhist sculpture AD 600-1300 (exhibition Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, 8.9 - 31.10.1982 ; New York, Japan House Gallery, 23.11.1982 - 16.1.1983) )
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ISBN: 0912804076 0912804084 9780912804088 Year: 1982 Publisher: Fort Worth New York City Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth) Japan Society


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L'idée d'architecture médiévale au Japon et en Europe
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ISBN: 9782804703547 2804703541 Year: 2017 Publisher: Bruxelles Mardaga

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"L'idée d'architecture est aujourd'hui universellement partagée. Qu'en était-il au Moyen Âge au Japon et en Europe? Comment percevait-on alors les abbatiales romanes et les cathédrales gothiques, les temples Zen et le style Grand Bouddha? Et, de nos jours, quelle perception de l'architecture médiévale ont les historiens de l'art en Europe et au Japon? Le XIXe siècle a insisté sur les convergences entre les cultures japonaises et européennes. Ne faut-il pas réévaluer les différences, qui sont aussi des signatures culturelles? Ces questions, qui trouvent une application concrète dans la conservation du patrimoine médiéval, toujours vivant, engagent profondément notre présent"--Back cover.


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Miracles of book and body : Buddhist textual culture and medieval Japan
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ISBN: 1283277395 9786613277398 0520947894 9780520947894 9780520265615 0520265610 9781283277396 6613277398 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Miracles of Book and Body is the first book to explore the intersection of two key genres of sacred literature in medieval Japan: sutras, or sacred Buddhist texts, and setsuwa, or "explanatory tales," used in sermons and collected in written compilations. For most of East Asia, Buddhist sutras were written in classical Chinese and inaccessible to many devotees. How, then, did such devotees access these texts? Charlotte D. Eubanks argues that the medieval genre of "explanatory tales" illuminates the link between human body (devotee) and sacred text (sutra). Her highly original approach to understanding Buddhist textuality focuses on the sensual aspects of religious experience and also looks beyond Japan to explore pre-modern book history, practices of preaching, miracles of reading, and the Mahayana Buddhist "cult of the book."


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Food and fantasy in early modern Japan
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ISBN: 1283277336 9786613277336 0520947657 9780520947658 9781283277334 6613277339 9780520262270 0520262271 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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How did one dine with a shogun? Or make solid gold soup, sculpt with a fish, or turn seaweed into a symbol of happiness? In this fresh look at Japanese culinary history, Eric C. Rath delves into the writings of medieval and early modern Japanese chefs to answer these and other provocative questions, and to trace the development of Japanese cuisine from 1400 to 1868. Rath shows how medieval "fantasy food" rituals-where food was revered as symbol rather than consumed-were continued by early modern writers. The book offers the first extensive introduction to Japanese cookbooks, recipe collections, and gastronomic writings of the period and traces the origins of dishes like tempura, sushi, and sashimi while documenting Japanese cooking styles and dining customs.


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The green archipelago : forestry in preindustrial Japan
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ISBN: 1282355384 9786612355387 0520908767 9780520908765 9781282355385 0520063139 9780520063129 6612355387 Year: 1989 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Every foreign traveler in Japan is delighted by the verdant forest-shrouded mountains that thrust skyward from one end of the island chain to the other. The Japanese themselves are conscious of the lush green of their homeland, which they sometimes refer to as "the green archipelago." Yet, based on its fragile geography and centuries of extremely dense human occupation, Japan today should be an impoverished, slum-ridden, peasant society subsisting on a barren, eroded moonscape characterized by bald mountains and debris-strewn lowlands.In fact, as Conrad Totman argues in this pathbreaking work based on prodigious research, this lush verdue is not a monument to nature's benevolence and Japanese aesthetic sensibilities, but the hard-earned result of generations of human toil that have converted the archipelago into one great forest preserve. Indeed, the author shows that until the late 1600s Japan was well on her way to ecological disaster due to exploitative forestry. During the Tokugawa period, however, an extraordinary change took place resulting in a system of "regenerative forestry" that averted the devastation of Japan's forests. The Green Archipelago is the only major Western-language work on this subject and a landmark not only in Japanese history, but in the history of the environment.

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