Heian Japan, centers and peripheries

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Adolphson, Mikael S., 1961-, Kamens, Edward, 1952-, Matsumoto, Stacie, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Between and beyond centers and peripheries / Mikael Adolphson and Edward Kamens
  • Part I: Locating political centers and peripheries
  • 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 - Part II: Shifting categories in literature and the arts
  • 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
  • Part III: Establishing new religious spheres
  • Scholasticism, exegesis, and ritual practice: on renovation in the history of Buddhist writing in the early Heian period / Ryūichi Abé
  • 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
  • Part IV: Negotiating domestic peripheries
  • Famine, climate, and faming 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
  • Part V: Placing Heian Japan in the Asian world
  • 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.