Cultural imprints : war and memory in the Samurai age
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Cultural imprints : war and memory in the Samurai age
(Cornell East Asia series, 211)
Cornell University Press, c2022
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  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
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Cultural Imprints draws on literary works, artifacts, performing arts, and documents that were created by or about the samurai to examine individual "imprints," traces holding specifically grounded historical meanings that persist through time. The contributors to this interdisciplinary volume assess those imprints for what they can suggest about how thinkers, writers, artists, performers, and samurai themselves viewed warfare and its lingering impact at various points during the "samurai age," the long period from the establishment of the first shogunate in the twelfth century through the fall of the Tokugawa in 1868.
The range of methodologies and materials discussed in Cultural Imprints challenges a uniform notion of warrior activity and sensibilities, breaking down an ahistorical, monolithic image of the samurai that developed late in the samurai age and that persists today. Highlighting the memory of warfare and its centrality in the cultural realm, Cultural Imprints demonstrates the warrior's far-reaching, enduring, and varied cultural influence across centuries of Japanese history.
Contributors: Monica Bethe, William Fleming, Andrew Goble, Thomas Hare, Luke Roberts, Marimi Tateno, Alison Tokita, Elizabeth Oyler, Katherine Saltzman-Li
Table of Contents
Introduction: Remembering the Samurai in Medieval and Early Modern Japan, by Elizabeth A. Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li
1. Memento Mori: Mori Warriors, Manase Physicians, and the New Medico-Cultural Nexus of the Late Sixteenth Century, by Andrew Edmund Goble
2. Hideyoshi and Okuni's Kabuki: Memories Preserved in a Screen Painting, by Marimi Tateno
3. Finding Origins and Meaning in the Warring States, by Luke S. Roberts
4. Plotting War during the Great Peace: The Uses of Warfare in Late Edo Tales of the Strange, by William D. Fleming
5. Ghosts along the Road: War Memory and Landscape in Medieval Narratives, by Elizabeth A. Oyler
6. Narrated and Danced Memory of Warand Resignation: The Role of Musical Delivery, by Alison Tokita
7. Performing Trauma and Lament: Gendered Scenes of Samurai Anguish on the Eighteenth-Century Kabuki Stage, by Katherine Saltzman-Li
8. In Memorandum: Dragonflies and Drums, by Monica Bethe
9. Representing Memory in the Warrior Plays, by Thomas Hare
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