Linked Data Explorerhttp://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/34746534
The Temples of Kyoto
Japan's ancient capital, Kyoto offers the oldest and the most beautiful of Japan's Buddhist temples. This book presents 21 structures in dramatic photographs--buildings chosen by a noted architectural photographer for their visual interest and including many a tourist would never see. The text, by one of the leading contemporary Western authorities on Japanese culture, weaves together a history of Japanese Buddhism, facts and legends about the temples, gardens and sculptures.
Open All Close All
http://schema.org/about
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/34746534#Topic/buddhist_temples_japan_kyoto_history
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1727649
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/34746534#Topic/buddhist_temples_japan_kyoto_guidebooks
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/34746534#Topic/temples_bouddhiques_japon_kyoto_histoire
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/34746534#Topic/architecture
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/34746534#Topic/temples_bouddhiques_japon_kyoto
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85133755
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/34746534#Topic/religion
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1207923
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/34746534#Topic/temples_bouddhiques_japon_kyoto_japon
http://schema.org/description
- "Japan's ancient capital, Kyoto offers the oldest and the most beautiful of Japan's Buddhist temples. This book presents 21 structures in dramatic photographs--buildings chosen by a noted architectural photographer for their visual interest and including many a tourist would never see. The text, by one of the leading contemporary Western authorities on Japanese culture, weaves together a history of Japanese Buddhism, facts and legends about the temples, gardens and sculptures."@en
- "The Temples of Kyoto takes you on a journey through these environs and presents twenty-one of these marvelous structures that are unique creations which, while quintessentially Japanese, somehow speak a universal languagereadily appreciated by people the world over. Donald Richie, called by Time magazine, "the dean of art critics in Japan," turns his attention to these twenty-one temples with scholarship and an eye for the dramatic. Drawingoff such classic sources as The Tale of Genji and Essays in Idleness, he takes the reader on a tour through the ages, first with a comprehensive history of."@en