Man'yo{u00AF}shu{u00AF} and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan
Published:
2014
Publisher:
Brill, Leiden
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
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Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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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
Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Conventions; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chronology of Major Events in the Nihon Shoki and Shoku Nihongi Narratives; Part One The Literary Representation of Empire; 1 Yamato as Empire in the Sinoscript Sphere; The Sinic Imperial Imagination; The Eastern Barbarians; Yamato, the Three Han, and the Sui; Great Tang and Great Yamato; 2 The National Imaginings of Early Japan; The Shape of the State; The Imperial Nation; Cultural Nationalism after 1945; Multicultural Yamato; 3 The Imperial Configuration of Nihon; The Names of the Ruler and the Realm.
Capitals and CalendarsThe Performance of Empire; The Texts of Empire; 4 Imperial Historiography and the Narrative Politics of the Jinshin Rebellion; The Plot of the Jinshin Rebellion; Imperial Historiography; Tenmu and the Jinshin Rebellion in the Kojiki Preface; Two Narratives of the Jinshin Rebellion; The Third Narrative; Historiographical Politics; Prince Ōtsu and the Ōmi Court; 5 Poetry Anthology as Imperial History; The Man'yōshū as National Anthology; The Compilation and Structure of the Man'yōshū; The Man'yōshū as Imperial History; Anthological Politics; Imperial Chronology.
Part Two Imperial Poetry and the Politics of the First Person6 The Voice of All under Heaven; Speech and Empire; Uta as First-Person Discourse; Individual and Collective Voice; Voices of Authority and Subjection; 7 Tenmu and the Yoshino Cult; Tenmu's Yoshino Poems; The Yoshino Praise Poems; The Politics of First-Person Reading; The Voice of Universal Praise; Yoshino and Imperial Succession after Tenmu and Jitō; 8 The Tenmu Myth of Heavenly Descent; Prince Kusakabe's Portrayal in the Nihon shoki; The Lament for the Prince Peer of the Sun; Prince Takechi's Portrayal in the Nihon shoki.
The Memory of the Jinshin WarMourning for Takechi; The Tenmu Myth; 9 The Memory of the Ōmi Capital; Ōmi and Tenchi in the Nihon shoki; The Ōmi Ōtsu Palace Sections of the Man'yōshū; Hitomaro's Poems on the Ruined Ōmi Capital; The Ōmi Capital as the Past; 10 The Fujiwara Sovereign; Ise and the Sun Prince; Prince Karu; The Poem on the Aki Fields; The Intimate Voice; Divine Lords; The Fujiwara Palace Sovereign; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
