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The eyes of power : art and early Tokugawa authority / Karen M. Gerhart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gerhart, Karen M., 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tokugawa, Iemitsu, 1604-1651--Art patronage.
- Tokugawa, Iemitsu.
- Tokugawa, Iemitsu, 1604-1651.
- Art, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868.
- Art, Japanese.
- Art, Japanese--Edo period.
- Politics in art.
- Art and state--Japan.
- Art and state.
- Art patronage.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 211 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [1999]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In the first half of the seventeenth century both those who commissioned and those who viewed art in Japan were primarily the elite -- the shogun, the court, high-ranking daimyo, government officials, and certain wealthy merchants. Much of the artistic energy engaged by the political center during the early Tokugawa was directed at the creation of monumental structures decorated with symbolic and complex images, mainly of Chinese origin, initiated or approved by the shogunate to legitimate its own power and to give its rule an aura of cultured sophistication.
- In this study of the political thrust behind some of the most important officially sponsored art of the early Tokugawa, Karen Gerhart takes as her focus the heyday of the rule of the third Tokugawa shogun, Iemitsu. She analyzes aspects of painting, architecture, and sculpture created expressly under the patronage of Iemitsu at three major monuments: the castles at Nijo and Nagoya and the sumptuous decoration of the great Tokugawa mausoleum, Nikko Toshogu. In highlighting key examples of artistic production, Gethart brings to the fore significant themes and issues that exemplify political art in the first half of the seventeenth century.
- Contents:
- Pine trees as political iconography at Nijō Castle
- Chinese exemplars and virtuous rulers at Nagoya Castle
- Nikkō's Yōmeimon: sculpture and sacred landscape
- The Tōshō Daigongen engi as political propaganda.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Gerhart, Karen M., 1949- Eyes of power.
- ISBN:
- 9780824864705
- 0824864700
- Publisher Number:
- 99984550716
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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