shiba

Updated: June 9, 2025

His reign had lasted only one year. At the point of death he was comforted by an assurance that the son of Shiba Tachito would renounce the world to revere his Majesty's memory and would make an image of the Buddha sixteen feet high. Buddhism had now gained a firm footing at the Yamato Court, but its opponents were still active.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

Thus, Yusa of the Hatakeyama, Oda of the Shiba, Uragami of the Akamatsu, and so forth are examples of deputies who resided permanently in the provinces concerned and acquired influence there superior even to that of their principals. These daikwan were selected from among the members or vassals of a shugo's family to act provisionally as shugo-dai.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

But from the artistic point of view such a change is one impossible to contemplate without a feeling of regret. There is, of course, no human possibility of temples such as those at Shiba and Nikko ever again being erected in Japan.

H. B. (Helen Barrett) Montgomery - The Empire of the East

No man who has not visited the great temples at Shiba and Nikko can understand to what heights of sublimity wooden architecture can rise, what a gorgeous tout ensemble can be accomplished by harmonious colour schemes deftly blended by artists who had made a study of colour and all the details connected therewith, and knew how to render a picturesque effect which should be imposing without being either gaudy or glaring.

H. B. (Helen Barrett) Montgomery - The Empire of the East