The Phoenix Hall at Uji and the Symmetries of Replication

• Autores: Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 77, Nº 4, 1995, págs. 647-672
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This essay presents a critical analysis of the celebrated Phoenix Hall built by the Japanese nobleman Fujiwara no Yorimichi at his villa-temple Bȳod̄oin in Uji in 1053. The hall is examined as a monument, as a three-dimensional illumination of a beloved Buddhist sutra, and as a text in the metaphorical sense through the framework, largely ignored in the current literature, of its later replication, in 1134 and 1150–70, by an emperor and then a warlord at their own residential temples in Kyoto and Hiraizumi.