Chikubushima: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan
"Chikubushima addresses, in refreshingly original ways, the central problems of how Momoyama art is understood and interpreted and, in so doing, raises more global issues for the discipline of art history in general. This is a superb study executed with style and verve."--Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan, Yale University "Chikubushima significantly enhances our understanding of a major sixteenth-century monument and of the importance its Toyotomi patrons attributed to 'laying claim to the sacred realm.' It offers a richly textured and evocative picture of the leading personalities, places, and cultural developments of a pivotal era in the history of modern Japan."--Christine Guth, author of The Art of Edo Japan