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Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan, Paperback / softback Book

Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan Paperback / softback

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This examination of death rituals in early Japan finds in the practice of double burial a key to understanding the Taika Era (645-710 A.D.).

Drawing on narratives and poems from the earliest Japanese texts--the Kojiki, the Nihonshoki, and the Man'yoshu, an anthology of poetry--it argues that double burial was the center of a manipulation of myth and ritual for specific ideological and factional purposes. "This volume has significantly raised the standard of scholarship on early Japanese and Man'yoshu studies."--Joseph Kitagawa "So convincing is the historical and religious thought displayed here, it is impossible to imagine how anyone can ever again read these documents in the old way."--Alan L.

Miller, The Journal of Religion "A central resource for historians of early Japan."--David L.

Barnhill, History of Religions

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