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Imagining exile in Heian Japan : banishment in law, literature, and cult / Jonathan Stockdale.
LIBRA DS856.3 .S76 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stockdale, Jonathan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sugawara, Michizane, 845-903--Cult.
- Sugawara, Michizane.
- Sugawara, Michizane, 845-903.
- Exile (Punishment)--Japan.
- Exile (Punishment).
- Exile (Punishment) in literature.
- Japanese literature--Heian period, 794-1185--History and criticism.
- Japanese literature.
- Cults.
- Japan.
- Japanese literature--Heian period.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 179 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the moon of exile
- Origin myths: Susano-o, Orikuchi Shinobu, and the imagination of exile in early Japan
- The radiance of exile: The tale of the bamboo cutter and The tale of Genji
- Spirits in exile: Sugawara Michizane and the cult of the vengeful spirit
- Cosmologies of law: exile and the legal imagination
- Conclusion: on the margins of Japanese religion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-169) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780824839833
- 0824839838
- OCLC:
- 885378129
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