Hiraizumi

Buddhist Art and Regional Politics in Twelfth-Century Japan

Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan

      Part I: Foundations

    1. The Emishi
      • The Unruled East
      • The Emishi
      • Hitakarni
      • The Northern World
      • Taking the East
      • Buddhist Strategies
      • Barbarians over Barbarians
      • The Eniishi Wars
    2. The Kitakami Rulers
      • The Fushũ
      • Rebellion in the North
      • A New Political Order
      • The Ōshū Wars
      • Kitakami Buddhism
      • A Fushū Nation?

      Part II: Art And Politics At HiraizumI

    3. Kiyohjra
      • Kiyohira
      • Hiraizumi
      • Chūsonji
      • Another Temple
      • Sutra of Gold and Silver
      • Symbolisms
    4. Motohira And Hidehira
      • Contests for Legitimacy
      • Strategies of Culture
      • Motohira
      • Hidehira
      • Hiraizumi
      • Mōtsūji
      • Kanjizaiōin
      • Muryōkōin
      • Sutra in Blue and Gold
      • A Splendid Domain
    5. A Realm Of Gold
      • House of Gold
      • The Mummies in the Altar
      • Three Generations at Konjikidō
      • Meaning in Anomaly
      • The Sutra Repository
      • Housing the Canon
      • Wutaishan Monju
      • A Golden World

      Part III: Power In Art

    6. The Fall Of Hiraizumi
      • Crisis and Demise
      • A Final Transcription
      • King Kinrin
      • Prophylaxis
    7. Art And Mandate
      • The Capital of Artists
      • Art Rhetoric 1981
      • Heterologies

      Reference Matter

    • Notes
    • Bibliography
    • Index
  • Cover: Hiraizumi

Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan is Professor of Japanese Art History at Yale University.