Cultural Imprints : : War and Memory in the Samurai Age / / ed. by Elizabeth Oyler, Katherine Saltzman-Li.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Bethe, Monica,; Fleming, William D.,; Goble, Andrew Edmund,; Hare, Tom,; Oyler, Elizabeth,; Roberts, Luke S.,; Saltzman-Li, Katherine,; Tateno, Marimi,; Tokita, Alison,
• HerausgeberIn: Oyler, Elizabeth,; Saltzman-Li, Katherine,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.) :; 32 b&w halftones, 8 color halftones, 2 maps

Cultural Imprints draws on literary works, artifacts, performing arts, and documents that were created by or about the samurai to examine individual "imprints," traces holding specifically grounded historical meanings that persist through time. The contributors to this interdisciplinary vo...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction Remembering the Samurai in Medieval and Early Modern Japan
• Chapter 1 Memento Mori: Mōri Warriors, Manase Physicians, and the New Medico-Cultural Nexus of the Late Sixteenth Century
• Chapter 2 Hideyoshi and Okuni’s Kabuki Memories Preserved in a Screen Painting
• Chapter 3 Finding Origins and Meaning in the Warring States
• Chapter 4 Plotting War during the Great Peace The Uses of Warfare in Late Edo Tales of the Strange
• Chapter 5 Ghosts along the Road War Memory and Landscape in Medieval Narratives
• Chapter 6 Narrated and Danced Memory of War and Resignation: The Role of Musical Delivery
• Chapter 7 Performing Trauma and Lament Gendered Scenes of Samurai Anguish on the Eighteenth-Century Kabuki Stage
• Chapter 8 In Memorandum Dragonflies and Drums
• Chapter 9 Representing Memory in the Warrior Plays
• Contributors
• Index