Kyoto: A Contemplative Guide

Kyoto: A Contemplative Guide
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Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 9781462913107
ISBN-13 : 1462913105
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Book Synopsis Kyoto: A Contemplative Guide by : Gouverneur Mosher

Download or read book Kyoto: A Contemplative Guide written by Gouverneur Mosher and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Kyoto travel guide presents the best tourists sites in Japan's spiritual and historical capital. With this guide the visitor needs no further assistance to learn all that a place has to offer. It is factual, concise, and complete. This Japan travel book is generously illustrated with photographs, maps, route plans, and building plans, as well as a selection of reproductions from old prints and picture scrolls. The sights were specifically chosen to give foreign visitors a broad understanding of Kyoto's political, religious, and cultural history. Among them are the ancient Phoenix Hall of the Byodo-in, the famous rock garden at Ryoan-ji, the mountain temples of Enryaku-ji, the lavishly decorated Nijo Castle of the Tokugawas, the Silver Pavilion and its remarkable garden, and the "all-time temple," Kiyomizu. Three appendices--a chart of Japanese art periods, a glossary and a list of useful Japanese phrases--further enhance its value.


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