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Ritual poetry, and the politics of death in early Japan / Gary L. Ebersole.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ebersole, Gary L., 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death--Political aspects--Japan.
- Death.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Japan.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Death--Political aspects.
- Japan.
- Japanese poetry--To 794--History and criticism.
- Japanese poetry.
- Mythology, Japanese.
- Japan--Court and courtiers.
- Courts and courtiers.
- Japan--Politics and government--To 794.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 338 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1989]
- Summary:
- In this book the focus will be on the public rituals of the imperial court, including the death rituals, whose meaning and efficacy came from a broadly shared symbolic universe. Every effort will be made to disclose the history of specific myths and rituals, that is, the conditions of their genesis, performance, reception, and textualization.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 319-331.
- ISBN:
- 0691073384
- OCLC:
- 18560237
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