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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Osaki Hachiman: Architecture, Materiality, and Samurai Power in Seventeenth-Century Japan

Osaki Hachiman: Architecture, Materiality, and Samurai Power in Seventeenth-Century Japan

Schweizer, Anton

Hardcover

General ArchitectureArchitecture HistoryJapanese History

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ISBN10: 3496015411
ISBN13: 9783496015413
Publisher: Dietrich Reimer Verlag
Published: Aug 1 2016
Pages: 438
Weight: 2.90
Height: 1.10 Width: 7.00 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
Osaki Hachiman (1607), located in Sendai, Japan, is one of only a handful of surviving buildings from the Momoyama period (1568-1615). The shrine is a rare example of lacquered architecture-an architectural type characterized by a shiny, black coat made of refined tree sap and evocative of transitory splendor and cyclical renewal. The shrine's sponsor, the warlord Date Masamune, was one of the last independent feudal lords of his time and remains famous for dispatching diplomatic missions to Mexico, Spain, and Rome. Although his ambitions to become a ruler of Northern Japan were frustrated, his shrine stands as a lasting testament to the political struggles he faced, his global aspirations, and the cultural cloak by which he sought to advance these objectives.

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