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050 00 $aDS855$b.O67 2009
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100 1 $aOoms, Herman.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84151558
245 10 $aImperial politics and symbolics in ancient Japan :$bthe Tenmu dynasty, 650-800 /$cHerman Ooms.
260 $aHonolulu :$bUniversity of Hawai'i Press,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $axxi, 353 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [325]-342) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tBricolage -- $tThe Sources -- $tLineage Delineation and the Tenmu Dynasty -- $tSixth- and Seventh-Century Successions -- $tJito to Shomu: Securing the Throne for a Great-Grandson -- $g2.$tMythemes -- $tCosmogonic Groundings -- $tThe Kojiki's Story of Origins -- $tThe Kojiki's Model of/for a Tenka -- $tUniversal Rulers -- $g3.$tAlibis -- $tFrom the Margin to a New Center -- $tGreat Purifications and Other New Court Rituals -- $tTenmu as Origin, Tenji as Beginning -- $tTenmu, Transcendental -- $tKami-in-the-Present -- $tMaster of Sign Language -- $tFujiwara-kyo: Numinous Fulcrum -- $tTwo Nara Palaces -- $g4.$tAllochthons -- $tContinental Knowledge -- $tContaining Symbolic Production -- $tThe Continental Connection -- $tA Twin Birth: Korea and Nihon -- $g5.$tLiturgies -- $tRitual and Food -- $tThe Liturgical State -- $tOblations -- $tA Broom and a Plow -- $tEnthronement Implements -- $tBuddhist Supplements and Substitutions -- $g6.$tDeposits -- $tA Historiographical Conundrum -- $tChinese Daoism -- $tDaoism as a Source of Legitimacy in China -- $tDisparate Daoist Elements in Yamato -- $tThe Daoist Way from China to Korea and Japan -- $g7.$tArticulations -- $tTenno -- $tChinkon-sai -- $tThe Daigokuden, Swords, and Mirrors -- $tThe Shinto Question -- $tNew Year 701 -- $tAstral Symbolism -- $tThe Emperor's Clothes -- $tInvisibility and Tenmu's Daoist Trajectory -- $tThe Great Exorcism -- $tStaffing the Yin-yang Bureau -- $tEra Names -- $g8.$tPlottings -- $tRitual Centers: The Mingtang and Ise -- $tThe Saigu in Ise -- $tBuddhism in and out of Ise and the Court -- $tThe Nakatomi -- $tOne Year, Three Eras -- $tCrossing Power Lines: Tenmu to Kanmu -- $tCircles of the Accused Plotters -- $g9.$tSpirits -- $tRevenge of the Living Dead -- $tRewriting the Record -- $tSpirits, Honorable but Vengeful -- $tGoryo-e -- $tThe Case of Prince Nagaya -- $tMagic, Legitimate and Illegitimate -- $tThe Case of the Missing Daoism -- $tYin-yang, in and out of the Shadows -- $g10.$tPurity -- $tPrototypes: Zhou Kings, Daoist Masters, Buddhist Meager F(e)asts -- $tAbstinence -- $tPurity as a Weapon -- $tProtecting the Realm against Impurity -- $tSenmin, Base People -- $tThe Impure, Foreground and Background.
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aJapan$xHistory$y645-794.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069440
600 00 $aTenmu,$cEmperor of Japan,$d631?-686.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85234480
650 0 $aReligion and state$zJapan$xHistory$yTo 1500.
852 00 $beal$hDS855$i.O67 2009