Thursday
31
OCT

06:15 PM

Shaping a Deity: Cult, Politics, and Architecture at the Toyokuni Shrine in Kyoto

Prof. Dr. Anton Schweizer, Kyushu University, Fukuoka (Japan), Department of Philosophy

This lecture discusses the Toyokuni shrine-mausoleum in Kyoto. Erected in 1599 as center for the posthumous cult of the deified hegemon Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the shrine embodied complex religio-political messages and was the site of large festivities. The vast complex was widely understood as a testament to the Toyotomi family’s claim to power and consequently razed by Tokugawa Hidetada after the Toyotomi’s destruction.

Anton Schweizer teaches art and architectural history at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan. At the center of his research is the employment of artifacts in space during Japan’s late medieval and early modern periods. Especially, he works on site planning and architectural decoration in the widest sense, issues of materiality, and depictions of works of architecture in painting.

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