Heian Japan, centers and peripheries
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Heian Japan, centers and peripheries
University of Hawaiʿi Press, c2007
- : hbk
Available at 32 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [415]-438
Includes index
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Contents of Works
- Between and beyond centers and peripheries / Mikael Adolphson and Edward Kamens
- From female sovereign to mother of the nation : women and government in the Heian period / Fukutō Sanae with Takeshi Watanabe
- Court and provinces under Regent Fujiwara no Tadahira / Joan R. Piggott
- Kugyō and zuryō : center and periphery in the era of Fujiwara no Michinaga / G. Cameron Hurst III
- The way of the literati : Chinese learning and literary practice in mid-Heian Japan / Ivo Smits
- Terrains of text in mid-Heian court culture / Edward Kamens
- The Buddhist transformation of Japan in the ninth century : the case of Eleven-Headed Kannon / Samuel C. Morse
- Scholasticism, exegesis, and ritual practice : on renovation in the history of Buddhist writing in the early Heian period / Ryūichi Abe
- Institutional diversity and religious integration : the establishment of temple networks in the Heian age / Mikael Adolphson
- The archeology of anxiety : an underground history of Heian religion / D. Max Moerman
- Famine, Climate, and farming in Japan, 670-1100 / William Wayne Farris
- Life of commoners in the provinces : the Owari no gebumi of 988 / Charlotte von Verschuer
- Lordship interdicted : Taira no Tadatsune and the limited horizons of warrior ambition / Karl Friday
- Cross-border traffic on the Kyushu coast, 794-1086 / Bruce L. Batten
- Jōjin's travels from center to center (with some periphery in between) / Robert Borgen
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The first three centuries of the Heian period (794-1086) saw some of its most fertile innovations and epochal achievements in Japanese literature and the arts. It was also a time of important transitions in the spheres of religion and politics, as aristocratic authority was consolidated in Kyoto, powerful court factions and religious institutions emerged, and adjustments were made in the Chinese-style system of rulership. At the same time, the era's leaders faced serious challenges from the provinces that called into question the primacy and efficiency of the governmental system and tested the social/cultural status quo. ""Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries"", the first book of its kind to examine the early Heian from a wide variety of multidisciplinary perspectives, offers a fresh look at these seemingly contradictory trends. Essays by fourteen leading American, European, and Japanese scholars of art history, history, literature, and religions take up core texts and iconic images, cultural achievements and social crises, and the ever-fascinating patterns and puzzles of the time. The authors tackle some of Heian Japan's most enduring paradigms as well as hitherto unexplored problems in search of new ways of understanding the currents of change as well as the processes of institutionalization that shaped the Heian scene, defined the contours of its legacies, and make it one of the most intensely studied periods of the Japanese past.
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