- Part I: Foundations
- The Emishi
- The Unruled East
- The Emishi
- Hitakarni
- The Northern World
- Taking the East
- Buddhist Strategies
- Barbarians over Barbarians
- The Eniishi Wars
- The Kitakami Rulers
- The Fushũ
- Rebellion in the North
- A New Political Order
- The Ōshō Wars
- Kitakami Buddhism
- A Fushū Nation?
- The Emishi
- Part II: Art and Politics at Hiraizumi
- Kiyohjra
- Kiyohira
- Hiraizumi
- Chūsonji
- Another Temple
- Sutra of Gold and Silver
- Symbolisms
- Motohira and Hidehira
- Contests for Legitimacy
- Strategies of Culture
- Motohira
- Hidehira
- Hiraizumi
- Mōtsūji
- Kanjizaiōin
- Muryōkōin
- Sutra in Blue and Gold
- A Splendid Domain
- 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
- Kiyohjra
- Part III: Power in Art
- The Fall of Hiraizumi
- Crisis and Demise
- A Final Transcription
- King Kinrin
- Prophylaxis
- Art and Mandate
- The Capital of Artists
- Art Rhetoric 1981
- Heterologies
- The Fall of Hiraizumi
- Reference Matter
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
HARVARD EAST ASIAN MONOGRAPHS

Harvard East Asian Monographs 171
Hiraizumi
Buddhist Art and Regional Politics in Twelfth-Century Japan
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$63.00 • £50.95 • €56.50
ISBN 9780674392052
Publication Date: 01/15/1999
296 pages
3 maps, 15 line-art, 88 halftones
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