Imagining Exile in Heian Japan : Banishment in Law, Literature, and Cult /

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"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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Main Author: Stockdale, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sugawara, Michizane, > (0845-0903)
Sugawara, Michizane, > 845-903.
Sugawara, Michizane, > 845-903 > Cult.
Chōsen Kōgei Kenkyūkai
Japon > Civilisation > 794-1185.
Litterature d'exil > Histoire et critique > Japon.
Heian-Zeit
Verbannung > Motiv
Japanisch
Literatur
Verbannung
Recht
Japanese literature > Heian period.
Exile (Punishment) in literature.
Exile (Punishment)
Cults.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > Japanese.
Bannissement > Japon.
Bannissement dans la litterature.
Litterature japonaise > 794-1185 (Époque de Heian) > Histoire et critique.
Exile (Punishment) > Japan.
Japanese literature > Heian period, 794-1185 > History and criticism.
Japan.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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