Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan : : The Tenmu Dynasty, 650-800 / / Herman Ooms.

Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan is an ambitious and ground-breaking study that offers a new understanding of a formative stage in the development of the Japanese state. The late seventh and eighth centuries were a time of momentous change in Japan, much of it brought about by the sh...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (396 p.) :; 11 line drawings, 5 color plates
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 BRICOLAGE
  • 2 MYTHEMES
  • 3 ALIBIS
  • 4 ALLOCHTHONS
  • 5 LITURGIES
  • 6 DEPOSITS
  • 7 ARTICULATIONS
  • 8 PLOTTINGS
  • 9 SPIRITS
  • 10 PURITY
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • index
  • About the Author