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Book Synopsis The Imperial Edicts in the Shoku Nihongi by : Ross Bender
Download or read book The Imperial Edicts in the Shoku Nihongi written by Ross Bender and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The imperial edicts from the eighth century comprise a magnificent collection of ancient Japanese prose. Known as the senmyo, they were inscribed in Old Japanese in the court history Shoku Nihongi (Chronicles of Japan, Continued), the language of whose narrative was classical Chinese. As oracular pronouncements of monarchs who considered themselves living gods, they are an invaluable source for early Japanese history, religion, and linguistics. It was these edicts that attracted the attention of the great 18th century philologist Motoori Norinaga, who published a lengthy commentary on these venerable documents. Norinaga was greatly interested in the apparent purity of the ancient Japanese language found in these edicts as well as in the Kojiki and Man'yoshu; his commentary identified the sixty-two senmyo now comprising the canon, and his readings still form the foundation for the study of these texts to the present day.This is the first complete English translation of the imperial edicts.
Book Synopsis The Imperial Edicts of the Shoku-nihongi by : John Kenneth Linn
Download or read book The Imperial Edicts of the Shoku-nihongi written by John Kenneth Linn and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Imperial Edicts in the Shoku-Nihongi (700-790 A.D.) by :
Download or read book The Imperial Edicts in the Shoku-Nihongi (700-790 A.D.) written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Edicts of the Last Empress, 749-770 by : Ross Bender
Download or read book The Edicts of the Last Empress, 749-770 written by Ross Bender and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study and translation of the Imperial Edicts in Shoku Nihongi from the years 749-770, the reign of the Last Empress of Nara Japan, Koken/Shotoku Tenno.
Download or read book Senmyō written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Japanese edicts in Shoku Nihongi have been intensively if not exhaustively studied. Remarkably, the readings that Motoori Norinaga assigned to them in the eighteenth century are essentially in place still today. Senmyō, due to Norinaga’s prescribing of the canon, has come to be the categorization for these sixty-two imperial rescripts. However, little to no attention has been paid either in Japan or the West to a larger number of Old Japanese edicts in senmyōtai appearing in the later National Histories. In addition, the four ninth-century official court histories inscribed in classical Chinese have received nothing like the interest that has been devoted over the years to Nihon Shoki and Shoku Nihongi. Stylistically these later senmyō are very much like those in Shoku Nihongi, inscribed in Old Japanese with large and small characters.
Book Synopsis Nara Japan, 749-757 by : Ross Bender
Download or read book Nara Japan, 749-757 written by Ross Bender and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study and translation of SHOKU NIHONGI for the years Tenpyo Shoho 1 through Tenpyo Hoji 1.
Download or read book 続日本紀 written by Ross Bender and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nara Japan, 758-763 by : Ross Bender
Download or read book Nara Japan, 758-763 written by Ross Bender and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan in the 8th century experienced sudden and intense economic and cultural growth. At the eastern terminus of the Silk Road, the islands participated in a cosmopolitan East Asian sphere, receiving new innovations in art, architecture, law, and religion from both Tang China and the Korean peninsula. The disruption was so extreme that some have compared this period to the modern Meiji era, when Japan opened itself to the West and rapidly transformed itself into a modern nation. Nara was the capital for most of the century; it was an urban center with a population of about 100,000. The years 758-63 saw the abdication of Empress Koken and the accession to the throne of Emperor Junnin. Although Junnin was the titular ruler until 764, historians regard him as the puppet of the powerful noble Fujiwara no Nakamaro. Empress Koken continued to exert a degree of power as Retired Sovereign. This is a translation of the Shoku Nihongi for the years 758-763. Shoku Nihongi is the official court chronicle of eighth-century Japan, presented to the court of Emperor Kanmu in 797. The language of the narrative is classical Chinese, but it also includes 62 imperial edicts inscribed in Old Japanese. It is an invaluable source the history of Japan's Nara period, providing both great detail about court life, the texts of imperial edicts, and narratives of events such as the dedication of the Great Buddha (Daibutsu), the death of Emperor Shomu, the Tachibana Naramaro conspiracy, the reign and exile of Junnin, the Fujiwara Nakamaro rebellion, the Hachiman cult, and the Dokyo incident.
Book Synopsis Ambassadors from the Islands of Immortals by : Zhenping Wang
Download or read book Ambassadors from the Islands of Immortals written by Zhenping Wang and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using recent archaeological findings and little-known archival material, Wang Zhenping introduces readers to the world of ancient Japan as it was evolving toward a centralized state. Competing Japanese tribal leaders engaged in ambassador diplomacy and actively sought Chinese support and recognition to strengthen their positions at home and to exert military influence on southern Korea. Wang brings diplomatic history to life in his descriptions of the diplomats and their personalities and literary talents as well as their ambitions and frustrations. He explains in detail the rigorous criteria of the Chinese and Japanese courts in the selection of diplomats and how the two prepared for missions abroad. He journeys with a party of Japanese diplomats from their tearful farewell party to hardship on the high seas to their arrival amidst the splendors of Yangzhou and Changan and the Sui-Tang court. The depiction of these colorful events is combined with a sophisticated analysis of premodern diplomacy using the key concept of mutual self-interest and a discussion of two major modes of diplomatic communication: court reception and the exchange of state letters. accepting, or rejecting court ceremonial arrangements.
Book Synopsis A History of Writing in Japan by : Christopher Seeley
Download or read book A History of Writing in Japan written by Christopher Seeley and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals chronologically with the history of writing in Japan, a subject which spans a period of 2,000 years, beginning with the transmission of writing from China in about the first or second century AD, and concluding with the use of written Japanese with computers. Topics dealt with include the adoption of Chinese writing and its subsequent adaptation in Japan, forms of writing employed in works such as the Kojiki and Man'yoshu, development of the kana syllabaries, evolution of mixed character-kana orthography, historical kana usage, the rise of literacy during the Edo period, and the main changes that have taken place in written Japanese in the modern period (ca. 1868 onwards). This is the first full-length work in a European language to provide the Western reader with an overall account of the subject concerned, based on extensive examination of both primary and secondary materials.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of Japan by : John Whitney Hall
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Japan written by John Whitney Hall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Definitive history of Japan from prehistoric times to the end of the eighth century.
Book Synopsis Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by : Asiatic Society of Japan
Download or read book Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan written by Asiatic Society of Japan and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of transactions, v. 1-41 in v. 41.
Book Synopsis The Six National Histories of Japan by : Taro Sakamoto
Download or read book The Six National Histories of Japan written by Taro Sakamoto and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Six National Histories of Japan chronicle the history of Japan from its origins in the 'Age of the Gods' to A.D. 887. Compiled in the imperial court during the eighth and ninth centuries by leading scholars and officials of the day, they have exerted a profound effect on Japanese thought for well over a millenium. In his book, renowned historian Taro Sakamoto interpreted modern scholarly findings, as well as presenting his own views, thus completing the modern re-evaluation of the controversial first history. His study is the only one to survey all six histories, identifying common features and pointing out the special characteristics of each. John Brownlee's translation makes available to English readers a valuable study of the Six National Histories which also provides insights into the methods of contemporary Japanese historians.
Book Synopsis Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by :
Download or read book Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Japanese Morphography by : Gordian Schreiber
Download or read book Japanese Morphography written by Gordian Schreiber and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Japanese Morphography, Gordian Schreiber takes an in-depth look at texts from pre-modern Japan written exclusively in Chinese characters as morphograms and demonstrates why the language behind the script is, in fact, to be identified as Japanese rather than Chinese.
Book Synopsis Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan by : Herman Ooms
Download or read book Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan written by Herman Ooms and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan is an ambitious and ground-breaking study that offers a new understanding of a formative stage in the development of the Japanese state. The late seventh and eighth centuries were a time of momentous change in Japan, much of it brought about by the short-lived Tenmu dynasty. Two new capital cities, a bureaucratic state led by an imperial ruler, and Chinese-style law codes were just a few of the innovations instituted by the new regime. Herman Ooms presents both a wide-ranging and fine-grained examination of the power struggles, symbolic manipulations, new mythological constructs, and historical revisions that both defined and propelled these changes. In addition to a vast amount of research in Japanese sources, the author draws on a wealth of sinological scholarship in English, German, and French to illuminate the politics and symbolics of the time. An important feature of the book is the way it opens up early Japanese history to considerations of continental influences. Rulers and ritual specialists drew on several religious and ritual idioms, including Daoism, Buddhism, yin-yang hermeneutics, and kami worship, to articulate and justify their innovations. In looking at the religious symbols that were deployed in support of the state, Ooms gives special attention to the Daoist dimensions of the new political symbolics as well as to the crucial contributions made by successive generations of "immigrants" from the Korean peninsula. From the beginning, a "liturgical state" sought to co-opt factions and clans (uji) as participants in the new polity with the emperor acting as both a symbolic mediator and a silent partner. In contrast to the traditional interpretation of the Kojiki mythology as providing a vertical legitimation of a Sun lineage of rulers, an argument is presented for the importance of a lateral dimension of interdependency as a key structural element in the mythological narrative. An enlightening line of interpretation woven into the author’s analysis centers on purity. This eminently politico-ritual value central to Chinese Daoism and Buddhism was used by Tenmu as the emblematic expression of his regime and new political power. The concept of purity was most fully realized in the world of the Saiô princess in Ise and was later used by Ise ritualists to defend themselves against Buddhist rivals. At the end of the Tenmu dynasty, it was widely believed that avenging spirits were the principal source of danger and pollution, notions understood here as statements about the bloody political battles that were waged in Tenmu court circles. The Tenmu dynasty began and ended in bloodshed and was marked throughout by instability and upheaval. Constant succession struggles between two branches of the royal line and a few outside lineages generated a host of plots, uprisings, murders, and accusations of black magic. This aspect of the period gets full treatment in fascinatingly detailed narratives, which the author skillfully alternates with his trademark structural analysis. Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan is a boldly imaginative, carefully and extensively researched, and richly textured history that will reward reading by Japan specialists and students in several disciplines as well as by scholars with an interest in the role of religious symbolism in state formation.
Book Synopsis Literary Sinitic and East Asia by : Bunkyo Kin
Download or read book Literary Sinitic and East Asia written by Bunkyo Kin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Literary Sinitic and East Asia: A Cultural Sphere of Vernacular Reading, Professor Kin Bunkyō surveys the ‘vernacular reading’ technologies used to read Literary Sinitic through a wide variety of vernacular languages across diverse premodern literary cultures in East Asia.
