@article{oai:tobunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00006014,
 author = {皿井, 舞 and Sarai, Mai},
 issue = {401},
 journal = {美術研究, The bijutsu kenkyu : the journal of art studies},
 month = {Aug},
 note = {Tomishima Yoshiyuki, the author of this book and an architectural historian, is a noteworthy scholar who has also published a succession of works on art history and subjects from other related academic fields. This book is such an example, a large tome of some 453 pages based on Tomishima's doctoral thesis. In the work Tomishima establishes a new architectural methodology that includes within its purview not only architectural space itself but also the Buddhist sculptures and paintings that appear within those architectural spaces.
     This work explores the development of religious ideology that underscores the mikkyô kûkan, or esoteric sect spaces, of ancient and medieval period Japanese temples. This exploration seeks to reveal an actual image of the worldview of the medieval belief systems, in detail, through his clarification of, “i) Formation and Development of Esoteric Mandala Spaces, ii) The Connections between Esoteric Mandala Space and Esoteric Ritual Space and iii) The Actual Religious Fusion that occurs in Esoteric Spaces.” He further seeks to construe “the logic system that links society with religion and the worldview (exoteric-esoteric cosmologies) that embraces them both.”

Bibliography: Tomishima Yoshiyuki, Mikkyô Kûkan Shiron, Tokyo: Hôzôkan, 2007.},
 pages = {57--66},
 title = {書評　冨島義幸『密教空間史論』},
 year = {2010}
}