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Higashiyama culture
Higashiyama culture was an artistic and literary trend formed around Ashikaga Yoshimasa's retirement at his Higashiyama villa in the late Muromachi p…
Timeline
- 1467–1477Kyoto · KyotoThe Ōnin War burned large parts of Kyoto and weakened shogunal authority. After Yoshimasa ceded office in 1473 he turned further toward artistic retirement, preparing the political conditions for the aesthetic experiments of the Higashiyama villa.
- 1482–1490Higashiyama estate (Silver Pavilion) · HigashiyamaYoshimasa built the Higashiyama estate's study and garden, gathering noh, tea, flower arrangement, and ink painting, fixing wabi-sabi and yūgen as the public aesthetic of the shogunate's retired life; Higashiyama culture took shape here.
- 1490Kyoto · KyotoAfter Yoshimasa's death, Higashiyama taste entered Sengoku through Edo culture via shoin-zukuri residences, tea schools, and dry landscape gardens, becoming the long-standing backdrop of Japanese refined culture.
Sources
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ashikaga-Yoshimasa
- Ginkaku-ji https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ginkaku-ji
- Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan — Donald Keene (2003)