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Imagining exile in Heian Japan : banishment in law, literature, and cult /

"For over three hundred years during the Heian period (794-1185), execution was customarily abolished in favor of banishment. During the same period, exile emerged widely as a concern within literature and legend, in poetry and diaries, and in the cultic imagination, as expressed in oracles and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stockdale, Jonathan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.