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Emperor of Japan
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- Description
- This book presents photographs of the Misasagi, or burial mounds, of all 124 Japanese emperors since the Kofun period, reaching back some 1,600 years. The scenes captured--not of the tombs themselves, but rather the places for worshiping at the tombs, and the surrounding gardens and landscapes--were created by the emperor system, with its claim of an unbroken line of sovereigns, that served as the foundation of the modern nation state of Japan.
- Publication date
- [2008]
- Call number
- 653183
- ISBN
- 9781590052457
- 1590052455
