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Author Duthie, Torquil, author.

Title Man'yōshū and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan / by Torquil Duthie
Published Leiden : Brill, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 443 pages) : illustrations
Series Brill's Japanese Studies Library ; volume 45
Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 45.
Contents Yamato as empire in the sinoscript sphere -- The national imaginings of early Japan -- The Imperial configuration of Nihon -- Imperial historiography and the narrative politics of the Jinshin rebellion -- Poetry anthology as imperial history -- The voice of all under heaven -- Tenmu and the Yoshino cult -- The Tenmu myth of heavenly descent -- The memory of the Omi Capital -- The Fujiwara sovereign
Summary In Man'yoshu and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan, Torquil Duthie examines the literary representation of the late seventh-century Yamato court as a realm of "all under heaven."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-433) and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 30, 2021)
SUBJECT Man'yōshū -- Criticism, Textual
Nihon shoki -- Criticism, Textual
Nihon shoki fast
Man'yōshū fast
Subject Imperialism in literature.
Courts and courtiers in literature.
Politics and literature -- Japan -- History -- To 1500
Political culture -- Japan -- History -- To 1500
Japanese poetry -- To 1185 -- History and criticism
Japanese literature -- To 1185 -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
Politics and literature
Political culture
Japanese poetry
Courts and courtiers in literature
Imperialism in literature
Intellectual life
Japanese literature
SUBJECT Japan -- History -- 645-794. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069440
Japan -- Intellectual life -- To 1185. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87002825
Subject Japan
Genre/Form History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004264540
900426454X