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Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868–1940 Alice Y University of Hawai'i Manoa Kahualike UH Press Book Previews University of Hawai`i Press Fall 10-31-2018 Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868–1940 Alice Y. Tseng Follow this and additional works at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/uhpbr Part of the Asian History Commons, Political Science Commons, and the Spatial Science Commons Recommended Citation Tseng, Alice Y., "Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868–1940" (2018). UH Press Book Previews. 27. https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/uhpbr/27 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Hawai`i Press at Kahualike. It has been accepted for inclusion in UH Press Book Previews by an authorized administrator of Kahualike. For more information, please contact [email protected]. MODERN KYOTO Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia’s Architecture Edited by Ronald G. Knapp and Xing Ruan House Home Family: Living and Being Chinese Edited by Ronald G. Knapp and Kai-Yin Lo Allegorical Architecture: Living Myth and Architectonics in Southern China Xing Ruan Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts Edited by Jeffrey W. Cody, Nancy S. Steinhardt, and Tony Atkin Chinese Architecture and Metaphor: Song Culture in the Yingzao Fashi Building Manual Jiren Feng Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China Bianca Bosker China’s Contested Capital: Architecture, Ritual, and Response in Nanjing Charles D. Musgrove Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea Inha Jung The Hermit’s Hut: Architecture and Asceticism in India Kazi K. Ashraf Architecturalized Asia: Mapping a Continent through History Edited by Vimalin Rujivacharakul, H. Hazel Hahn, Ken Tadashi Oshima, and Peter Christensen Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil, 200–600 Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan’s Premodern Capital Matthew Stavros Traces of the Sage: Monument, Materiality, and the First Temple of Confucius James A. Flath Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868–1940 Alice Y. Tseng MODERN KYOTO Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868–1940 Alice Y. Tseng University of Hawai‘i Press Honolulu © 2018 University of Hawai‘i Press All rights reserved Printed in China 23 22 21 20 19 18 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Tseng, Alice Yu-Ting, author. Title: Modern Kyoto : building for ceremony and commemoration, 1868–1940 / Alice Y. Tseng. Other titles: Spatial habitus (Series) Description: Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press, [2018] | Series: Spatial habitus : making and meaning in Asia’s architecture | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018003981 | ISBN 9780824876449 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Architecture—Political aspects—Japan—Kyoto. | Public spaces—Political aspects—Japan—Kyoto. | Historic buildings—Japan—Kyoto. | Kyoto (Japan)—Buildings, structures, etc. Classification: LCC NA1557.K9 T79 2018 | DDC 720.952/1864—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018003981 University of Hawai‘i Press books are printed on acid-free paper and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Council on Library Resources. Design by: Nord Compo Jacket art: Yoshida Hatsusaburō, Picture of Kyoto (Kyōto zue), 1928. Designed for the year of the Shōwa enthronement, the map highlights the East, West, and South Exhibition Grounds of the Great Kyoto Enthronement Commemoration Exhibition. Kyoto Prefectural Library and Archives, Kyō no kioku ākaibu. In memory of Suzuki Hiroyuki sensei Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Measurements and Conventions xvii Introduction 1 Chapter One: A New Imperial Garden and Imperial Shrine 23 Chapter Two: Beginnings of a Cultural Park in Okazaki 66 Chapter Three: Enthronements and Exhibitions 111 Chapter Four: Commemorative Projects as Urban Landmarks 161 Epilogue 209 Notes 221 Selected Bibliography 249 Index 261 Illustrations Map of contemporary Kyoto. 1.1 Ochiai Yoshiiku, Hodogaya, from the series Folding Fan Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Suehiro gojūsan sugi), 1865. 1.2 Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Kyoto, from the series Folding Fan Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Suehiro gojūsan sugi), 1865. 1.3 Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Crossing the Pontoon Bridge at Rokugō (Bushū Rokugō funawatashi no zu), 1868. 1.4 Plan of Heian-kyō, showing the greater imperial palace sector (Daidairi) and the residential palace sector (Dairi). 1.5 Utagawa Hiroshige, Kyoto: The Imperial Palace (Kyō, Dairi), from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi), 1840–1842. 1.6 Anonymous, Gate of the Imperial Palace, ca. 1880s. 1.7 Ishida Aritoshi, Old Mikado’s Residence (Dairi onmai goran no zu), from the album Fifty Famous Views of Kyoto (Kyōto meisho gojukkei), 1890. 1.8 Studio of Kusakabe Kimbei, View of Mikado’s Garden at Kioto, ca. 1880s. 1.9 Proposals for the Kyoto Commemorative Hall (eventually Heian Shrine) by Kigo Kiyoyoshi and Itō Chūta, 1894. 1.10 Itō Chūta, Sōryū and Byakko Towers of Heian Shrine, 1893. 1.11 The Daigokuden of Heian Shrine seen from the east, and an aerial view of the Fourth National Industrial Exhibition, 1895. 1.12 Ishii Yukimasa, Heian Shrine, ca. 1900. 2.1 Adachi Ginkō, Promulgation of the Imperial Constitution in the Hall for State Ceremonies of the New Imperial Palace (Shin kōkyo oite seiden kenpō happushiki no zu), 1889. ix x ILLUSTRATIONS 2.2 Utagawa Kokunimasa, Promulgation of the Constitution, Scene at Sakurada Gate (Kenpō happushiki Sakurada no kei), 1890. 2.3 Yōsai Nobukazu, Imperial Prosperity: Ceremony in the Eastern Capital (Miyo no sakae azuma no kewai), ca. 1900. 2.4 Scenes of citizens celebrating on the wedding day of the crown prince at Nakanoshima Park, Osaka, and at Heian Shrine, Kyoto, 1900. 2.5 The imperial journey to western Japan, with visits to Uji, Ise, and Kyoto, 1900. 2.6 Honmaru Building, Nijō Detached Palace, Kyoto, as reconstructed on a new site in 1894. 2.7 Aqueduct of the Lake Biwa Canal, Kyoto, completed in 1890. 2.8 Tamura Sōryū, Shaft Construction (Shafuto kōjō), from the album Illustrated Guide to the Lake Biwa Canal Construction (Biwako Sosui kōji zukan), 1886. 2.9 Kawada Shōryō, aerial view of the Lake Biwa Canal course, from the album Illustration Records of the Lake Biwa Canal (Biwako Sosui zushi), 1890. 2.10 Kawada Shōryō, view of construction inside the tunnels, from the album Illustration Records of the Lake Biwa Canal (Biwako Sosui zushi), 1890. 2.11 Site plan of the Kyoto City Commemorative Zoological Garden, opened to the public in 1903. 2.12 Ishii Yukimasa, the great central fountain inside the Kyoto City Commemorative Zoological Garden, undated. 2.13 Ogawa Jihei VII, Garden of Murin-an, Kyoto, completed in 1894–1896. 2.14 Takeda Goichi, Kyoto Prefectural Memorial Library, Kyoto, completed in 1909. Front and rear views of the building at time of completion. 2.15 Kyoto Prefectural Library, detail of terra-cotta decorative trim on front facade. 2.16 Kyoto Prefectural Memorial Library, floor plans at time of completion, 1909. 3.1 Site plan of the permanent Exhibition Hall in Kyoto Imperial Garden, in use between 1881 and 1896. 3.2 Central building of the permanent Exhibition Hall in Kyoto Imperial Garden, 1887. 3.3 Yoshida Hatsusaburō, Picture of Kyoto (Kyōto zue), 1928. 3.4 Takeuchi Seihō, Heian Shrine (Heian Jingū), 1896. ILLUSTRATIONS xi 3.5 Diagram showing the seven major streets widened in phase three of the Three Great Projects, 1907–1913. 3.6 Street decorations on Karasuma Avenue for the Taishō enthronement, 1915. 3.7 Celebratory arch in front of the Kyoto Station plaza, 1915. 3.8 Diagram showing the Shishinden and the Shunkōden of the Kyoto Imperial Palace (Gosho) arranged for the Sokui no rei (Ceremony of Accession) for the Taishō enthronement, 1915. 3.9 Shunkōden, completed in 1915 for the Taishō enthronement. 3.10 The Sokui no rei in progress in the Shishinden and the building’s open court, 1915. 3.11 Takamikura, the throne mounted by the emperor in the Sokui no rei ceremony in the Shishinden, 1915. 3.12 Daijō Shrine, located on the grounds of Sentō Gosho, completed in 1915 for the Taishō enthronement. 3.13 The Bird’s Eye View of the Tokyo Taishō Exhibition, 1914. 3.14 Tokyo Taishō Exhibition, Second Exhibition Ground: Transportation Building, 1914. 3.15 General View of the Dedication of Japanese Pavilion, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915. 3.16 Site plan of the Japanese Government Pavilion and Garden at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. 3.17 Site plan of the Kyoto Enthronement Commemoration Exhibition, 1915. 3.18 View of the Industry Building at the First Exhibition Ground, Kyoto Enthronement Commemoration Exhibition, 1915. 3.19 Kamisaka Sekka, The Kyoto Enthronement Commemoration Exhibition (Taiten Kinen Kyōto Hakurankai), 1915. 3.20 Site plan of the Great Kyoto Enthronement Commemoration Exhibition, 1928. 3.21 Commemorative stamp issued for the Shōwa enthronement, 1928. 4.1 Lamp pedestal from the Kyoto Enthronement Commemoration Exhibition, Okazaki Park, 1915. 4.2 Map of Great Kyoto (Dai Kyōto shigai chizu), 1930. 4.3 Kyoto Station, the first-generation building, opened in 1877. xii ILLUSTRATIONS 4.4 Tatsuno Kingo and Kasai Manji, Central Railway Station, Tokyo, completed in 1914. 4.5 Watanabe Setsu, Kyoto Railway Station, the second-generation building, completed in 1914. 4.6 Kyoto Railway Station, floor plans at time of completion, 1914. 4.7 The main imperial room of the Kyoto Railway Station, 1915. 4.8 Site plan of the Commemorative Kyoto Botanical Garden, opened to the public in 1924. 4.9 Kurokawa Suizan, main fountain at the Kyoto Botanical Garden, early Shōwa period. 4.10 The evolution of Okazaki Park, showing the location of institutions and facilities in 1913, 1927, and 1934. 4.11 Kyoto Public Hall, completed in 1917. 4.12 The grand gateway (torii) of Heian Shrine, completed in 1928. 4.13 Maeda Kenjirō, first-prize entry for the Kyoto Art Museum Competition, 1930.
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