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Pilgrimages to the Ancient Temples in Nara

Pilgrimages to the Ancient Temples in Nara

Nara, Hiroshi
Watsuji, Tetsurō

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral ArtJapanese History

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ISBN10: 1937385116
ISBN13: 9781937385118
Publisher: Merwinasia
Published: Mar 31 2012
Pages: 225
Language: English

Watsuji's Koji Junrei is a book of impressions of a trip he took in 1918 to Japan's ancient capital of Nara, where he saw a number of Buddhist temples. By then, Watsuji had already published influential, groundbreaking books on Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and the book Gūzū saikō (Resurrection of Idols).

Koji Junrei is significant in that it began a modern literary trend of travel writing about ancient temples and shrines in Japan and elsewhere. While the genre had existed for centuries, it was Koji Junrei that almost singlehandedly resurrected it.

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