Reflecting the past : place, language, and principle in Japan's medieval mirror genre /
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 Mirrors,...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Asia Center,
[2020]
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| Series: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
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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.