Hibutsu no tobira / Nagai Sayako.
秘仏の扉 永井紗耶子.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nagai, Sayako, 1977- author.

永井紗耶子, 1977- author.

Language:

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Buddhist temples--Japan--Fiction.

Buddhist temples.

Buddhism--Japan--Fiction.

Buddhism.

Japan--History--Meiji period, 1868-1912--Fiction.

Japan.

Statues--Japan--Fiction.

Statues.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Religious fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

289 pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Tōkyō [Japan] : Bungei Shunjū, 2025.

東京 : 文藝春秋, 2025.

Language Note:

In Japanese.

Summary:

A door that was tightly closed for 200 years. It was opened by the hands of Fenollosa and Tenshin Okakura. The statue of Savior Kannon in the dream hall of Horyuji Temple is said to have been created in the Asuka period in the image of Prince Shotoku. Since the Kamakura period, the zushi has been kept tightly closed, and it was believed that if the door was opened, Buddha's punishment would immediately fall. ``Are you showing off hidden Buddhist statues for money?'' ``Without support, Horyuji Temple will no longer be able to be maintained.'' A storm of anti-Buddhism protests rages on in Japan, but Oriental art is beginning to be appreciated in Europe and America. During the Meiji era, which was teetering between modernization and tradition, what were the thoughts of the people involved in the discovery of the hidden Buddha statues? A masterpiece of historical drama drawn by a Naoki Prize-winning author.

200年の間、固く閉ざされていた扉。それはフェノロサと岡倉天心の手によって開かれたーー. 飛鳥時代に聖徳太子の姿を模して造られたと言われる、法隆寺夢殿・救世観音像。その厨子は鎌倉時代以降、固く閉ざされ、扉を開けば直ちに仏罰が下ると信じられていた。「金のために秘仏を見せるというのか」「支援がなければ、法隆寺はもう保てません」国内では廃仏毀釈の嵐が吹き荒れ、しかし、欧米では東洋美術が評価され始めている。近代化と伝統の狭間で揺れる明治時代に、秘仏開帳に関わったものたち、それぞれの思いとは。直木賞作家が描き出す歴史群像劇の傑作。

Contents:

Hikari no arika

Kyōji no yukue

Sora no inori

Rakudo e no michi

Konton no tōhi

Sennen o tsugu.

光の在処

矜持の行方

空の祈り

楽土への道

混沌の逃避

千年を繋ぐ.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references on pages 288-289).

ISBN:

9784163919317

4163919317

OCLC:

1484278491