Temples of Kyoto. Donald Richie

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      The photographs on pp. 45, 71, 74 were taken by Donald Richie.

      Published by the

       Charles E. Tuttle Company Inc. of

       Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan

       with editorial offices at

       Osaki Shinagawa-ku,

       Tokyo 141-0032

      © 1995 by

       Charles E. Tulttle Publishing Co., Inc.

      All rights reserved

      LCC Card No. 94-62021

       ISBN: 978-1-4629-0857-8 (ebook)

      First edition, 1995

      Printed in Singapore

      for Katherine Wells

      Contents

Preface	9
Introduction	11
The Temples:
Enryaku-ji	28
Ishiyama-dera	36
Kiyomizu-dera	44
Mii-dera	50
Ninna-ji	54
Daikaku-ji	60
Byodo-in	64
Komyo-ji	70
Kennin-ji	76
Sennyu-ji	81
Chion-in	86
Tofuku-ji	93
Nanzen-ji	99
Tenryu-ji	105
Myoshin-ji	110
Kinkaku-ji	115
Ginkaku-ji	121
Higashi Hongan-ji	128
Shisen-do	136
Manshu-in	142
Enko-ji	146
Acknowledgments	150
Bibliography	151

      Commit neither the error of the naive reader, who is depressed by massacres and legal tortures and who congratulates himself upon living in the twentieth century, nor that of the reader of historical novels, who safely delight in the splendid crimes and scandals of the past—above all, let us note envy the past its stability...

      "Ah, Mon Beau Chateau... "

       -MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

Preface

      There are nearly two thousand places of worship in Kyoto and the great majority of them are Buddhist temples. Any book can thus hold only a certain number. This one includes twenty-one, СКАЧАТЬ