Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan
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Allegory
Amaterasu
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Burial
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Clifford Geertz
Courtier
Cremation
Crown prince
Cultural history
Emperor Bidatsu
Emperor Tenji
Empress Suiko
Epithet
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Euhemerism
Eulogy
First Fruits
Fudoki
Heian period
Hiroko
Ideology
Imperial cult (ancient Rome)
Imperial House of Japan
Imperial Regalia
Incest
Izanagi
Japanese literature
Japanese poetry
Jinshin War
Ki no Tsurayuki
Kofun
Kojiki
Kujiki
Kusakabe
Kusamakura (novel)
Lament
Miko
Mikoto
Mitama
Mourning
Muraji
Myth and ritual
Narrative
Nihon Shoki
Oral history
Oral poetry
Poet
Poetry
Prince Kusakabe
Princeton University Press
Procession
Prose
Religion
Shinto
Soga clan
Soga no Umako
Spouse
Superiority (short story)
Sushun
Tenji (era)
Term of endearment
The Other Hand
The Various
Tokoyo
Wreath
Writing
Yomi
Yoshino Mountain
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- ISBN 9780691019291
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 17 Aug 1992
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 way."--Alan L. Miller, The Journal of Religion "A central resource for historians of early Japan."--David L. Barnhill, History of Religions
