Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries /

Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries / / ed. by Mikael S. Adolphson, Stacie Matsumoto, Edward Kamens.

Show other versions (1)

"This exceptionally rich set of essays substantially advances our understanding of the Heian era, presenting the period as more fascinating, multi-faceted, and integrated than it has ever been before. This volume marks a turning point in the study of early Japanese culture and will be indispens...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
HerausgeberIn:
Adolphson, Mikael S.,
Kamens, Edward,
Matsumoto, Stacie,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (464 p.) :; 22 illus., 10 maps
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • contents
  • maps, figures, and tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Between and Beyond Centers and Peripheries
  • part I: Locating Political Centers and Peripheries
  • 21 From Female Sovereign to Mother of the Nation: Women and Government in the Heian Period
  • 3. Court and Provinces under Regent Fujiwara no Tadahira
  • 41 Kugyō and Zuryō: Center and Periphery in the Era of Fujiwara no Michinaga
  • part II: Shifting Categories in Literature and the Arts
  • 5. The Way of the Literati: Chinese Learning and Literary Practice in Mid-Heian Japan
  • 6. Terrains of Text in Mid-Heian Court Culture
  • 7. The Buddhist Transformation of Japan in the Ninth Century: The Case of Eleven-Headed Kannon
  • part III: Establishing New Religious Spheres
  • 8. Scholasticism, Exegesis, and Ritual Practice: On Renovation in the History of Buddhist Writing in the Early Heian Period
  • 9. Institutional Diversity and Religious Integration: The Establishment of Temple Networks in the Heian Age
  • 10. The Archeology of Anxiety: An Underground History of Heian Religion
  • part IV: Negotiating Domestic Peripheries
  • 11. Famine, Climate, and Farming in Japan, 670 - 1100
  • 12. Life of Commoners in the Provinces: The Owari no gebumi of 988
  • 13. Lordship Interdicted: Taira no Tadatsune and the Limited Horizons of Warrior Ambition
  • part V: Placing Heian Japan in the Asian World
  • 14. Cross-border Traffic on the Kyushu Coast, 794 - 1086
  • 15. Jōjin's Travels from Center to Center (with Some Periphery in between)
  • References
  • Glossary-index
  • Contributors

Similar Items