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Author Ebersole, Gary L, author

Title Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1989

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Description 1 online resource (354 pages)
Contents Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Transliteration and Abbreviations -- Introductio -- Chapter One: Ritual Poetry in the Court -- Chapter Two: The Mythology of Death and the Niiname-sai -- Chapter Three: The Liminal Period of Temporary t-nshrinement -- Chapter Four: The Poetry of the Mogari no Miya -- Chapter Five: Mythistory, Rhetoric, and the Politics of Marriage -- Conclusion: Imagining History -- Glossary of Japanese Terms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Man'yoshu Poems Cited -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Death -- Political aspects -- Japan
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Japan
Japanese poetry -- To 794 -- History and criticism
Mythology, Japanese.
Politics and government
Mythology, Japanese
Japanese poetry
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Death -- Political aspects
Courts and courtiers
SUBJECT Japan -- Court and courtiers. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069396
Japan -- Politics and government -- To 794. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069540
Subject Japan
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780691218298
0691218293