Uncovering Heian Japan,9780822325185

Uncovering Heian Japan

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ISBN13: 9780822325185
ISBN10: 0822325187
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-05-01
Publisher(s): Duke Univ Pr
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Summary

"Thomas LaMarre has written a fascinating archaeology of how the national imagination of modern Japan has colonized ancient scriptures of the archipelago to fabricate a glorious lineage and cultural ancestry for itself. "Uncovering Heian Japan" also recovers the rich prehistory of cosmopolitan poetic exchanges between the archipelago and the Middle Kingdom that is foreclosed by state-sanctioned cultural histories of both modern Japan and China."--Pheng Cheah, University of California, Berkeley

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
A Note on Transliteration and Illustrations ix
Introduction: Unstating Heian Japan 1(12)
PART ONE. THE INTERPRETATION OF REBUSES
Revising the Rebus
13(13)
Kana Inscription and Stylistic Differentiation
26(24)
Composition and Competition
50(27)
PART TWO. INSCRIPTION AND SENSATION
Toward a History of Styles
77(16)
Heian Calligraphy
93(23)
The Multisensible Figure: Ashide Shita-e Wakanroeisho
116(27)
PART THREE. THE SONG MACHINE
Two Prefaces, Two Modes of Appearance
143(18)
Tsurayuki's Song Machine
161(28)
Notes 189(18)
Works Consulted 207(10)
Illustrations 217(12)
Index 229

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