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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.


