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1 online resource |
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Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 44 |
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Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 44.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Note on Conventions and Texts Used; Chapter One The Genpei jōsuiki and the Historical Narration of the Genpei War; The Late Heian World and the Genpei War; The Historical Rhetoric of the Genpei jōsuiki; Critical Approaches to Historicity in the Heike monogatari; The Scripting of Socio-political Order through the Semiotic Codes of Material and Ritual Culture; Variants and Textual Lines; The Genpei jōsuiki and the Dai Nihonshi; Chapter Two Fictions of Emergence: The Symbolic Regulation of Violence in the Battles of 1180 |
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The Defiled East and the Unpropitious Beginning of the Genpei WarCleansing and Karmic Rebirth: The Sacralizing Potential of the Bathhouse; Dreaming the Body and Soothsaying the Face: The Legible Body in an Arbitrary World; The Fukuhara Edict, the Hōjōe, and the Legitimation of Violence; Tree Hollows, Boats, and other Fortune-Reviving Spaces: Yoritomo as the Latter-day Emperor Tenmu; The Battle of Fuji River and the Reimagining of the Borderlands; Punishing Traitors and Awarding Followers: Performing the Birth of a Law-Making Political Body; Conclusion |
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Chapter Three Gastro-Politics and the Shifting Geographyof Medieval Japan: Famine, Feasts, and the Court's Appointment of a Shogun in 1183The Material and the Cultural in Food; Gallows Humor: Domesticating the Political Challenge of Minamoto Yoshinaka; Uncourtly Dining Manners in the "Nekoma" Episode: Challenging the Court's Maintenance of Gastro-Political Order; Yoritomo's Feast in the Heike: Rewriting the Center-Periphery Dichotomy; Food and the Shifting Geography of Power: The 'Warrior Banquet' Trope in the Konjaku monogatarishū; Shogunal Feasts: Power and Pageantry in Medieval Japan |
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The Yōwa Famine in Historical RecordsConclusion; Chapter Four Converging and Diverging Doubles in 1185: Sword Replicas and the Locations of Martial Power; Sword Symbolism and Political Duality in the Medieval World; (Re- )Placing the Imperial Sword in the Medieval World; The "Hōken setsuwa" Passage: Atsuta Shrine and the Overlay of Sword Stories; Proleptic Visions of New Swords in the Genpei jōsuiki; The "Tsurugi no maki": Bloodline and the Fashioning of Shogunal Genealogy; Conclusion; Chapter Five The Cultural Shift from the Carriage to the Horse: Portending Historical Change |
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Horses amidst Carriages: Turmoil in the Construction of Symbolic AuthorityClashing Vehicles in the Streets of Kyoto: Marking Imperial Decline; The Horse that Sparked the Genpei War: Absorbing the Unpredictable Eruption of Warrior Violence; Ikezuki and Surusumi: Horse Racing (kurabeuma) and the Transformation of War into Sport; The Darkness of Horse Narratives in the Konjaku monogatarishū: Violence Rendered Distant; Equine Culture and the Logic of Power in Late Heian to Kamakura Japan; Chapter Six The Past in the Present: Troping Warrior Power in the Muromachi and Tokugawa Periods |
| Summary |
Authorizing the Shogunate is a study of the symbolic construction of warrior order in the Heike monogatari corpus |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Heike monogatari -- Criticism, Textual
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Heike monogatari -- Language
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Genpei seisuiki -- Criticism, Textual
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Genpei seisuiki -- Language
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Genpei seisuiki fast |
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Heike monogatari fast |
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan.
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Language and languages
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War and literature
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- History -- Gempei Wars, 1180-1185 -- Literature and the war.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069453
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| Subject |
Japan
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013019449 |
| ISBN |
9789004255333 |
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9004255338 |
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9004248102 |
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9789004248106 |
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