Government by Mourning: Death and Political Integration in Japan, 1603-1912 - Couverture rigide

Hirai, Atsuko

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674066820 ISBN 13 : 9780674066823

Editeur : Harvard University, Asia Center, 2014

Synopsis

From the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century, the Tokugawa shogunate enacted and enforced myriad laws and ordinances to control nearly every aspect of Japanese life, including observance of a person's death. In particular, the shoguns Tsunayoshi and Yoshimune issued strict decrees on mourning and abstention that dictated compliance throughout the land and survived the political upheaval of the Meiji Restoration to persist well into the twentieth century. Atsuko Hirai reveals the pivotal relationship between these shogunal edicts and the legitimacy of Tokugawa rule. By highlighting the role of narimono chojirei (injunctions against playing musical instruments) within their broader context, she shows how this class of legislation played an important integrative part in Japanese society not only through its comprehensive implementation, especially for national mourning of major political figures, but also by its codification of the religious beliefs and customs that the Japanese people had cherished for innumerable generations.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University, Asia Center
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0674066820
• ISBN 13: 9780674066823
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 464