Man'yōshū And the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-25171-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 45, 444 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 799 g

Reihe: Brill's Japanese Studies Library

In Man’yoshu 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’yoshu (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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duthie, Torquil

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Torquil Duthie, Ph.D. (2005), Columbia University, is Assistant professor of premodern Japanese literature at UCLA. He is the author of articles on early Japanese poetry and historiography, and of translations of the Man’yoshu into English and the Kokinshu into Spanish.