From Sovereign to Symbol
Subtitle: An Age of Ritual Determinism in Fourteenth Century Japan
By: Thomas Donald Conlan
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780199778102
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Rituals; Shingon (Sect); History; Court and courtiers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [200]-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Rise of the Administrative Nobility; title: Kitabatake Chikafusa and the Unveiling of Court Secrets; title: The Master of Ritual; title: The Destruction of Precedent; title: Creating Court and Sovereign; title: The End of the Past; title: The Ashikaga Emperor; title: Epilogue: The Unraveling.