Muroji : Rearranging Art and History at a Japanese Buddhist Temple

by Fowler, Sherry Dianne

• ISBN13: 9780824827922
• ISBN10: 0824827929
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-30
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

Muroji: Rearranging Art and History at a Japanese Buddhist Temple is the first in-depth examination in English of the temple's art, architecture, and history. Relying on sensitive consideration of context along with traditional art historical modes of analysis, it offers a fuller understanding of a site of signal importance in the history of Japanese Buddhism. Its sophisticated blending of approaches will find an appreciative audience among art historians, historians, students of Japanese religion, and more broadly Buddhologists and others interested in the history of religion.

Author Biography

Sherry D. Fowler is associate professor of Japanese art history at the University of Kansas.

Table of Contents

Below the surface of Mt. Muro : the founding and early history of the temple and shrine	p. 9
Religious affiliations and contested histories	p. 43
The building and rebuilding of Muroji	p. 85
Outside and inside the golden hall	p. 139
Shifting identities and trading places in the golden hall	p. 175
Conclusion : manifestations of multiplicity	p. 205
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