Amidaji: Emperor Antoku's Mortuary Temple and Its Culture

by Naoko Gunji

How do you reconstruct a tradition of religious art wiped out by another religion? Naoko Gunji takes up this challenging question in Amidaji. Amidaji was a Buddhist temple in western Japan that, from the twelfth century onwards, overlooked the strait of Dannoura and commemorated the tragic protagonists of The Tale of the Heike who perished in the strait at the end of the Genpei War (1180-1185)―the Heike or the Taira clan and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004512527
• ISBN13: 9789004512528
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 347 Pages