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Man'yoshu and the imperial imagination in early Japan /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Duthie, Torquil
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.
Series:Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 45.
Subjects:
Man'yōshū > Criticism, Textual.
Nihon shoki > Criticism, Textual.
Japan > History > 645-794.
Japan > Intellectual life > To 1185.
Imperialism in literature.
Courts and courtiers in literature.
Politics and literature > Japan > History > To 1500.
Political culture > Japan > History > To 1500.
Japanese poetry > To 1185 > History and criticism.
Japanese literature > To 1185 > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Chronology of major events in the Nihon Shoki and Shoku Nihongi narratives
  • Part One. The literary representation of empire
  • Yamato as empire in the Sinoscript sphere
  • The national imagining of early Japan
  • The imperial configuration of Nihon
  • Imperial historiography and the narrative politics of the Jinshin Rebellion
  • Poetry anthology as imperial history
  • Part Two. Imperial poetry and the politics of the first person
  • The voice of all under heaven
  • Tenmu and the Yoshino cult
  • The Tenmu myth of heavenly descent
  • The memory of the Omi capital
  • The Fujiwara sovereign.