Reflecting the Past : : Place, Language, and Principle in Japan's Medieval Mirror Genre / / Erin L. Brightwell.
"Reflecting the Past is the first English-language study to address the role of historiography in medieval Japan, an age at the time widely believed to be one of irreversible decline. Drawing on a decade of research, including work with medieval manuscripts, it analyzes a set of texts-eight Mir...
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| Superior document: | Harvard East Asian Monographs ; Volume 433 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : : Harvard University Asia Center,, [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
Volume 433. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- New reflections : refuge in the past during the final age
- Deviant by design : multilingual writing in postwar Medieval Japan
- Containing China : the continent as medieval object of knowledge
- Moving mirrors : ordering the past in the wake of the Mongols
- Memories of mirrors : nostalgia for a unified realm
- Epilogue : mirror legacies for early modern Japan.