{"id":6477,"date":"2025-03-04T08:28:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T16:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/?p=6477"},"modified":"2025-03-04T08:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T16:30:20","slug":"the-sacred-enclosure-of-the-himorogi-at-hiroshima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/the-sacred-enclosure-of-the-himorogi-at-hiroshima\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sacred Enclosure of the Himorogi at Hiroshima"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Join Us for an Alumni Lecture!<\/h3>\n

The Sacred Enclosure of the Himorogi at Hiroshima<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n
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\"ChristopherChristopher Mead, Ph.D.<\/strong>
\nEmeritus Regents\u2019 Professor, University of New Mexico<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial was designed and built between 1949 and 1955 as a permanent monument to world peace by the great Japanese modernist, Tange Kenzo\u0304. The monument seems so complete and self-evident that few visitors stop to ask an obvious if overlooked question: Why is the Peace Memorial not located at the hypocenter, the elevated site where the atomic bomb Little Boy detonated 1903 feet in the air and annihilated an entire city in less than a second on August 6, 1945? Why is the Peace Memorial in fact located some 1200 feet distant from the hypocenter on another of Hiroshima\u2019s many islands? It is as if we had decided to erect the 9\/11 Memorial, not where the World Trade Center Towers stood until September 11, 2001, but elsewhere in New York City, on Wall Street for example. In this talk, I take on this question by locating Tange Kenzo\u0304\u2019s design at the intersection of Western paradigms of architecture and planning codified by Le Corbusier with Japanese traditions of cultural space and architecture. These traditions engage both Shinto\u0304 and Buddhist beliefs and are rooted ultimately in the himorogi \u2014 the sacred Shinto\u0304 enclosure where earth meets sky, and humans gather to welcome spirits called kami. Shaped by a sense of time and space unlike what we in the West assume when speaking of place, the himorogi answers our question in ways that we do not expect.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 5:00pm<\/strong>
\nThe Barbara and Art Culver Screening Room at UCR ARTS
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