Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan Keene Donald
Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan Keene Donald Yoshimasa may have been the worst shogun ever to rule Japan. But his influence on the cultural life of Japan was…
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Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan Keene Donald
Yoshimasa may have been the worst shogun ever to rule Japan. But his influence on the cultural life of Japan was unparalleled. He was a failure as a soldier, incompetent at dealing with state business, and dominated by his wife.
Unable to control the daimyos--provincial military governors--he abandoned politics and devoted himself to the quest for beauty. According to Donald Keene, Yoshimasa was the only shogun to leave a lasting heritage for the entire Japanese people.Today Yoshimasa is remembered primarily as the builder of the Temple of the Silver Pavilion and as the ruler at the time of the Onin War (1467-1477), after which the authority of the shogun all but disappeared. It was then, after Yoshimasa resigned as shogun and made his home in the mountain retreat now known as the Silver Pavilion, that his aesthetic taste came to define that of the Japanese: the no theater
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