Temples of Kyoto

Donald Richie, the dean of art critics in Japan, offers a guided tour of the marvellous temples of Japans ancient capital, Kyoto. Richie presents twenty-one turns temples with authoritative scholarship and an eye for the dramatic, drawing on such classic sources as The Tale of Genji and Essays in Idleness. First on the itinerary is a comprehensive history of Japanese Buddhism narrating the development of these celestial-seeming cities. From the Tendai warrior-priests of Enryaku-ji to the floating vision of paradise at Byodo-in, the past springs eternal in the Temples of Kyoto. Share the thrills in hundreds of brilliant photographs of the temples.Richie, Donald is the author of 'Temples of Kyoto', published 1995 under ISBN 9780804820325 and ISBN 0804820325.