Authorizing the Shogunate: Ritual and Material Symbolism in the Literary Construction of Warrior Order - Couverture rigide

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Selinger, Vyjayanthi R.

 
9789004248106: Authorizing the Shogunate: Ritual and Material Symbolism in the Literary Construction of Warrior Order
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ISBN 10 : 9004248102 ISBN 13 : 9789004248106
Editeur : Brill, 2013

Synopsis

The Genpei War of 1180-1185 signaled a crucial shift in Japanese history because it gave birth to the shogunate, or government run by warriors. How was the emergence of this new polity following a contentious civil war explained in literary texts? This book argues that political authority is made visible in the variant texts of the Heike monogatari corpus through rituals that map the ideal social-cosmic order, overwriting untidy historical realities. Artifacts of material culture likewise provide the social and political codes to authenticate warrior power and manage its violence. Through its focus on ritual and material practices, this book offers a new perspective on how texts from fourteenth century Japan harnessed symbolic understandings of authority to evoke order and contain rupture. Equally significant is its analysis of the Genpei jōsuiki a Heike monogatari variant that played a critical role in the retrospection of medieval Japan through the early modern period.

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À propos de l'auteur

Vyjayanthi R. Selinger, Ph.D. (2007), Cornell University, is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at Bowdoin College.

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004248102
ISBN 13 
9789004248106
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
212
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Personne responsable
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