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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811712703321

Autore

Duthie Torquil

Titolo

Man'yőshű and the imperial imagination in early Japan / / by Torquil Duthie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-26454-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (463 p.)

Collana

Brill's Japanese Studies Library, , 0925-6512 ; ; Volume 45

Disciplina

895.6/11

Soggetti

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

Japan History 645-794

Japan Intellectual life To 1185

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chronology of Major Events in the Nihon Shoki and Shoku Nihongi Narratives -- 1 Yamato as Empire in the Sinoscript Sphere -- 2 The National Imaginings of Early Japan -- 3 The Imperial Configuration of Nihon -- 4 Imperial Historiography and the Narrative Politics of the Jinshin Rebellion -- 5 Poetry Anthology as Imperial History -- 6 The Voice of All under Heaven -- 7 Tenmu and the Yoshino Cult -- 8 The Tenmu Myth of Heavenly Descent -- 9 The Memory of the Ōmi Capital -- 10 The Fujiwara Sovereign -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Man’yōshū 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.” Through close readings of the early volumes of the poetic anthology Man’yōshū (c. eighth century) and the last volumes of the official history Nihon shoki (c.



720), Duthie shows how competing political interests and different styles of representation produced not a unified ideology, but rather a “bundle” of disparate imperial imaginaries collected around the figure of the imperial sovereign. Central to this process was the creation of a tradition of vernacular poetry in which Yamato courtiers could participate and recognize themselves as the cultured officials of the new imperial realm.