Temples of Kyoto
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Donald Richie. Temples of Kyoto
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Commit neither the error of the naive reader, who is depressed by massacres and legal tortures and who congratulates himself upon living in the twentieth century, nor that of the reader of historical novels, who safely delight in the splendid crimes and scandals of the past—above all, let us note envy the past its stability...
"Ah, Mon Beau Chateau... "
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Finished, Heian-kyo was by eighth-century standards enormous. It measured three miles east to west and three and a half miles north to south. The boundaries were rectangular and great avenues crossed each other at regular intervals. One such divided the city into east and west (or left and right) capitals. It was nearly three hundred feet wide making it quite the widest avenue in the world. At its head stood the palace enclosure, the northern side of which formed part of the city limits; it measured one mile by three-quarters, of a mile, and had fourteen gates.
It was a smaller version of the Tang dynasty capital of Chang'an (modern Xi'an), the same city which had also served as earlier inspiration for Nara—but, of course, now without the many temples. Kammu carefully limited both their number and the admission of their priests.
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