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Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan
Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan
Author: Gary L. Ebersole
This examination of death rituals in early Japan finds in the practice of double burial a key to understanding the Taika Era (645-710 A.D.). Drawing on narratives and poems from the earliest Japanese texts--the Kojiki, the Nihonshoki, and the Man'yoshu, an anthology of poetry--it argues that double burial was the center of a manipulation of myth...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691019291
ISBN-10: 0691019290
Publication Date: 7/28/1992
Pages: 350
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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