Flowering tales : : women exorcising history in Heian Japan / / Takeshi Watanabe.
"Telling stories: that sounds innocuous enough, but for the first chronicle in the Japanese vernacular, A Tale of Flowering Fortunes (Eiga monogatari), the health of its eleventh-century community was at stake. Flowering Tales is the first extensive literary study of this historical tale that c...
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| Superior document: | Harvard East Asian monographs ; 427 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, Massachusetts ;, London : : Harvard University Asia Center,, [2020] 2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
427. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. The Genealogy of Eiga monogatari
- 2. The Buried Mothers of the Middle Regent's House
- 3. The Other Empress: Seishi and the Figural Genealogy
- 4. Fathers and Daughters as Spirit Possessions-- 5. The Sequel: Matching Change with Continuity
- Epilogue: The Sacred Mirror
- Glossary of Personages and Their Genealogies by Chapter.