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Government by mourning : death and political integration in Japan, 1603-1912 /
"Hirai reveals how the decrees on mourning played an important integrative part in the Tokugawa period through not only its comprehensive implementation, especially among major political figures, but also its codification of the religious beliefs and customs that the Japanese people had cherish...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Japonés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Published by the Harvard University Asia Center and distributed by Harvard University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
347. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: Mourning laws the pre-Tokugawa foundation and Tokugawa political implications
- Pre-Tokugawa mourning laws
- The Tokugawa mourning edicts
- Mourning and the Shogun's legitimacy
- Mourning and the Daimyo houses
- The mourning edict and the populace
- Portraits of men and women in mourning
- Part II: Public mourning in Edo and the Daimyo domains
- Public mourning of state personages
- Public mourning in the Daimyo domains
- Public mourning and the imperial family
- Public mourning in Bakumatsu politics
- Part III: Mourning in the Meiji period
- Government by mourning in the Meiji period
- Conclusion.