Kyoto: A Contemplative Guide

Gouverneur Mosher

Sinopsis

This Kyoto travel guide presents the best tourists sites in Japan's spiritual and historical capital.With this guide the visitor needs no further assistance to learn all that a place has to offer. It is factual, concise, and complete. This Japan travel book is generously illustrated with photographs, maps, route plans, and building plans, as well as a selection of reproductions from old prints and picture scrolls.The sights were specifically chosen to give foreign visitors a broad understanding of Kyoto's political, religious, and cultural history.  Among them are the ancient Phoenix Hall of the Byodo-in, the famous rock garden at Ryoan-ji, the mountain temples of Enryaku-ji, the lavishly decorated Nijo Castle of the Tokugawas, the Silver Pavilion and its remarkable garden, and the "all-time temple," Kiyomizu.Three appendices—a chart of Japanese art periods, a glossary and a list of useful Japanese phrases—further enhance its value.

Disponible desde: 15/06/1964.

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