Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan

Name: Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan
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ISBN: 9780691019291

ISBN-10: 0691019290

ISBN-13: 9780691019291

Edition: 1989

Authors: Gary L. Ebersole

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This examination of death rituals in early Japan finds in the practice of double burial a key to understanding the Taika Era (645-710 A.D.). Drawing on narratives and poems from the earliest Japanese texts--the Kojiki, the Nihonshoki, and the Man'yoshu, an anthology of poetry--it argues that double burial was the center of a manipulation of myth and ritual for specific ideological and factional purposes. "This volume has significantly raised the standard of scholarship on early Japanese and Man'yoshu studies."--Joseph Kitagawa "So convincing is the historical and religious thought displayed here, it is impossible to imagine how anyone can ever again read these documents in the old…

Book details

List price: $68.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/17/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 350
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.17" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English