The Eyes of Power: Art and Early Tokugawa Authority Steven J. Kasdin and the contradictions that defined

and the contradictions that defined his character

Year:  1922

carefully argued

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The Eyes of Power: Art and Early Tokugawa Authority Steven J. Kasdin and the contradictions that definedIn the first half of the seventeenth century both those who commissioned and those who viewed art in Japan were primarily the elite the shogun, the court, high ranking daimyo, government officials, and certain wealthy merchants. Much of the artistic energy engaged by the political center during the early Tokugawa was directed at the creation of monumental structures decorated with symbolic and complex images, mainly of Chinese origin, initiated or