Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan / / 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 do...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (350 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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