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Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Thomas LaMarre
Categories: Literary Criticism
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Literary criticism of classical Japanese poetry, focusing on the emergence of "Kokinwakashu, ' an imperial anthology of waka poetry compiled in the 9th century.
Imagining Exile in Heian Japan
Language: en
Pages: 194
Authors: Jonathan Stockdale
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-28 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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For over three hundred years during the Heian period (794–1185), execution was customarily abolished in favor of banishment. During the same period, exile eme
A Poetics of Courtly Male Friendship in Heian Japan
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Paul Gordon Schalow
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-12-31 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Western scholars have tended to read Heian literature through the prism of female experience, stressing the imbalance of power in courtship and looking for evid
Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries
Language: en
Pages: 466
Authors: Mikael S. Adolphson
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-02-28 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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The first three centuries of the Heian period (794-1086) saw some of its most fertile innovations and epochal achievements in Japanese literature and the arts.
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Language: en
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Authors: Kristopher W. Kersey
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-07-16 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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If we want to decolonize the history of art, argues Kristopher Kersey, we must rethink our approach to the historical record. This means dispensing with Eurocen