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Tag Archives: premodern Japan
Book Announcement: Rituals of Initiation and Consecration in Premodern Japan: Power and Legitimacy in Kingship, Religion, and the Arts
Rituals of Initiation and Consecration in Premodern Japan: Power and Legitimacy in Kingship, Religion, and the Arts Edited by Fabio Rambelli & Or Porath In premodern Japan, legitimization of power and knowledge in various contexts was sanctioned by consecration rituals … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, Buddhism, culture, Japanese culture, Japanese society, premodern, premodern Japan, religious studies, ritual, Shinto, shugendo, society
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Book Announcement: Letters from Japan’s Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Letters from Japan’s Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Correspondence of Warlords, Tea Masters, Zen Priests, and Aristocrats Morgan Pitelka, Reiko Tanimura, Takashi Masuda Cultural historians Morgan Pitelka and Reiko Tanimura partner with one of Japan’s premier experts in calligraphy and letter … Continue reading
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Tagged aristocrats, book announcement, books, epistolary culture, Japan, Japanese history, letters, premodern Japan, tea, translation, Zen
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Book Announcement: Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age
Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age Edited by Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li Cultural Imprints draws on literary works, artifacts, performing arts, and documents that were created by or about the samurai to examine individual “imprints,” traces holding … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, culture, historical memory, Japan, Japanese culture, Japanese history, memory, memory studies, premodern, premodern Japan, samurai, warrior
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Book Announcement: Senmyō: Old Japanese Imperial Edicts in the National Histories 697-887
Senmyō: Old Japanese Imperial Edicts in the National Histories 697-887 Ross Bender The Old Japanese edicts in Shoku Nihongi have been intensively if not exhaustively studied. Remarkably, the readings that Motoori Norinaga assigned to them in the eighteenth century are essentially in … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient, ancient history, ancient Japan, book announcement, books, premodern, premodern Japan
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Book Announcement: Samurai: A Very Short Introduction
Samurai: A Very Short Introduction Michael Wert The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were … Continue reading
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Tagged early modern Japan, history, Japan, Japanese history, modern Japan, premodern Japan, samurai, warrior history, warriors
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Book Announcement: Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature
Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature Series: Language, Writing and Literary Culture in the Sinographic Cosmopolis, Volume: 2 Author: Mareshi Saito Editors / Translators: Ross King and Christina Laffin In Kanbunmyaku: The … Continue reading
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Tagged Japanese, Japanese language, kanbun, language, literature, premodern, premodern Japan, premodern Japanese, writing
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Book Announcement: The Last Female Emperor of Nara Japan, 749-770
The Last Female Emperor of Nara Japan, 749-770by Ross Bender The last female emperor of Nara Japan was Kōken/Shōtoku Tennō, who ruled from 749 to 770, with an interregnum from 758 to 764. She was the last in a series of … Continue reading
Book Announcement: A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in the Tale of Genji
A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in the Tale of Genji by Reginald Jackson (Author) Open Access: June 2021 How might queer theory transform our interpretations of medieval Japanese literature and how might this literature reorient the assumptions, priorities, … Continue reading
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Tagged classical Japan, Heian, Heian Japan, Japan, Japanese literature, premodern Japan, queer theory, Tale of Genji, theory
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Book Announcement: Behold the Buddha: Religious Meanings of Japanese Buddhist Icons
Behold the Buddha: Religious Meanings of Japanese Buddhist Icons James C. Dobbins Images of the Buddha are everywhere—not just in temples but also in museums and homes and online—but what these images mean largely depends on the background and circumstance … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Asian art, Buddha, Buddhism, Japan, premodern Japan, religious studies
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Job Opening: University Lectureship in History of Japan through the 19th Century, Leiden
Position: University Lectureship in History of Japan through the 19th Century Institution: Faculty of Humanities, Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Universiteit Leiden Location: Leiden, the Netherlands From official job posting on the Universiteit Leiden website: The Faculty of Humanities, … Continue reading
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