Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan / / Gary L. Ebersole.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Ebersole, Gary L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Notes on Transliteration and Abbreviations --; INTRODUCTION Mythistory, Ritual, and Poetry in Early Japan --; CHAPTER ONE Ritual Poetry in the Court --; CHAPTER TWO The Mythology of Death and the Niiname-sai --; CHAPTER THREE The Liminal Period of Temporary t-nshrinement --; CHAPTER HOUR The Poetry of the Mogari no Miya --; CHAPTER FIVE Mythistory, Rhetoric, and the Politics of Marriage --; CONCLUSION Imagining History --; Glossary of Japanese Terms --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index of Man'yoshu Poems Cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691218298; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691218298?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Gary L. Ebersole.

This examination of death rituals in early Japan finds in the practice of double burial a key to understanding the Taika Era (645-710 A.D.). Drawing on narratives and poems from the earliest Japanese texts--the Kojiki, the Nihonshoki, and the Man'yoshu, an anthology of poetry--it argues that double burial was the center of a manipulation of myth and ritual for specific ideological and factional purposes. "This volume has significantly raised the standard of scholarship on early Japanese and Man'yoshu studies."--Joseph Kitagawa "So convincing is the historical and religious thought displayed here, it is impossible to imagine how anyone can ever again read these documents in the old way."--Alan L. Miller, The Journal of Religion "A central resource for historians of early Japan."--David L. Barnhill, History of Religions