Kinkakuji and Kitayama: Space, Place, Monuments and Memory in Japan 1222-1994 / Thomas D. Conlan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conlan, Thomas D., author.

Series:

Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

Japanese Visual Culture ; 23.

Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025

Japanese Visual Culture ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--History.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work adopts a typology of intentional monuments, historical monuments, ancient monuments, and timeless monuments to describe how Kinkakuji, the Golden Pavilion, was created, preserved, destroyed, and rebuilt. It reveals how Ashikaga Yoshimitsu Kinkakuji as a monument to glorify his rule. Later, Kinkakuji became a mortuary temple and historical monument, commemorating the Ashikaga, before becoming an ancient monument that was valued for being old. It then became a National Treasure of Japan. After it was destroyed in 1950, Kinkakuji was built as a timeless monument. In the process, Kinkakuji’s reconstruction influenced how UNESCO authorities defined “original” monuments.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Prologue and Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Conventions

Introduction

1 Memories, Monuments, and Visitors

2 The Interpretive Framework of This Book

3 Studies and Sources

4 The Focus of This Work

1 Kintsune's Dream: the Saionji and Kitayama (1222-1429)

1 The Location

2 Becoming Saionji Kintsune

3 Possessing and Transforming Kitayama

4 A Retreat and Site for Visitation

5 Kitayama after Kintsune

6 Kitayama after the Saionji Heyday

2 Yoshimitsu, Kitayama, and Kinkakuji (1368-1408)

1 Early Life

2 Muromachi as Symbol for a New Age: Yoshimitsu's Palace of Flowers

3 The Initial Construction of Shōkokuji

4 Travels and Campaigns against Shugo

5 Pacifying the Yamana: Shōkokuji and the Kitano Kyō-ōdō

6 Renouncing the World

7 Rebuilding Shōkokuji

8 The Idea of Kinkakuji

9 Yoshimitsu at Kitayama

10 Moving Mountains

11 Constructing Kinkakuji

12 The Original Appearance of Kinkakuji

13 Populating Kitayama

14 Rebuilding Palaces and Pagodas

15 Greeting Ming Ambassadors

16 The Ritual Apogee of Yoshimitsu and Kitayama

17 The Spring of 1408 and Yoshimitsu's End

18 Yoshimitsu's Commemorative Monuments

3 From Intended to Historical Monuments (1408-1512)

1 The Unwinding: Yoshimochi and Kitayama

2 Those Who Lingered at Kitayama

3 An Absence of Commemoration: Kinkakuji as a Zen Monastic Complex

4 Ashikaga Yoshimasa, the Ōnin War, and the Survival of Rokuonji

5 Postwar Destruction

6 From Kitayama to Higashiyama

7 Reconstruction and Ruin: Kitayama and Higashiyama in the Sixteenth Century

8 Conclusion

4 From Historical to Ancient Monuments (1517-1871)

1 The 1537-1538 Renovation of Kinkakuji

2 Rokuonji's Robust Finances.

3 Early Representations of Kinkakuji

4 From an Urban to an Agricultural Site

5 Changes to the Kinkakuji and Its Garden

6 From a Historical to an Ancient Monument

7 Pay to View

8 Kabuki and Increasing Interest in Kinkakuji

9 Kinkakuji and Ginkakuji

10 Tourist Guides

11 The Increasingly Decrepit Kinkakuji

12 Repairs and Rising Prices

13 Kitayama during the Tumultuous 1860s

14 Conclusion

5 Kinkakuji and the Culture of Authenticity (1868-1915)

1 The Meiji Transition

2 The Kyoto Industrial Fair (1872)

3 The Search for Authenticity

4 The 1895 Kyoto Industrial Exposition

5 Commemorative Images and Attempts to Popularize New Names for Kinkakuji

6 A Building of Special Protection

7 Kinkakuji in St. Louis (1904)

8 Later Copies: London, Nagoya, and San Francisco (1910-1915)

9 Conclusion

6 Becoming a National Treasure (1915-1950)

1 Kinkakuji as a Symbol of Japan (or Kyoto)

2 The Changing Appearance of Kinkakuji

3 In Praise of Decay

4 Kinkakuji as Survivor

5 The Burning of Kinkakuji

6 The Debate

7 Kinkakuji Eternal (1950-1994)

1 Debates on Reconstruction

2 Rebuilding Kinkakuji

3 The Reconstruction

4 Images of Kinkakuji

5 The Increasingly Limited Experience of Visiting Kinkakuji

6 Restoration: toward Perfection

7 Challenging Authenticity: Kinkakuji's Designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site

8 Kinkakuji Unbound

10 Coda: Byōdōin (2012-2022)

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-73304-3

9789004733046

OCLC:

1561174935