Man'yoshu and the imperial imagination in early Japan
By: by Torquil Duthie
Series: Brill's Japanese studies library -- volume 45
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9789004251717; 9789004264540
Subjects: Textual Criticism; History; Intellectual life; Imperialism in literature; Courts and courtiers in literature; Politics and literature; Political culture; Japanese poetry; History and criticism; Japanese literature; Man'yōshū; Nihon shoki
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-433) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chronology of major events in the Nihon Shoki and Shoku Nihongi narratives; title: Part One. The literary representation of empire; title: Yamato as empire in the Sinoscript sphere; title: The national imagining of early Japan; title: The imperial configuration of Nihon; title: Imperial historiography and the narrative politics of the Jinshin Rebellion; title: Poetry anthology as imperial history; title: Part Two. Imperial poetry and the politics of the first person; title: The voice of all under heaven; title: Tenmu and the Yoshino cult; title: The Tenmu myth of heavenly descent; title: The memory of the Omi capital; title: The Fujiwara sovereign.