Foreword / Toshiko Mori |
Preface |
Translator's Note |
Japan-ness in Architecture / Part I: |
Japanese Taste and Its Recent Historical Construction / 1: |
Western Structure versus Japanese Space / 2: |
Yayoi and Jomon / 3: |
Nature and Artifice / 4: |
Ka (Hypothesis) and Hi (Spirit) / 5: |
Ma (Interstice) and Rubble / 6: |
Fall and Mimicry: A Case Study of the Year 1942 in Japan / 7: |
A Mimicry of Origin: Emperor Tenmu's Ise Jingu / Part II: |
The Problematic Called "Ise" / 8: |
Identity over Time / 9: |
Archetype of Veiling / 10: |
A Fabricated Origin: Ise and the Jinshin Disturbance / 11: |
Construction of the Pure Land (Jodo): Chogen's Rebuilding of Todai-ji / Part III: |
The Modern Fate of Pure Geometric Form / 12: |
Chogen's Constructivism / 13: |
The Five-Ring Pagoda in Historical Turmoil / 14: |
Mandala and Site Plan at Jodo-ji / 15: |
The Architectonics of the Jodo-do (Pure Land Pavilion) at Jodo-ji / 16: |
Big Buddha Pavilion (Daibutsu-den) at Todai-ji / 17: |
Chogen's Archi-vision / 18: |
A Multifaceted Performance / 19: |
Brunelleschi versus Chogen / 20: |
Chogen/Daibutsu-yo and Eisai/Zenshu-yo / 21: |
Three Kinds of Hierophany / 22: |
Raigo Materialized / 23: |
A Non-Japanesque Japanese Architecture / 24: |
A Diagonal Strategy: Katsura as Envisioned by "Enshu Taste" / Part IV: |
Katsura and Its Space of Ambiguity / 25: |
Architectonic Polysemy / 26: |
Authorship of Katsura: The Diagonal Line / 27: |
Glossary of Names, Buildings, and Technical Terms |
Notes |
Index |