TY - BOOK ID - 9296073 TI - The emergence of Japanese kingship. PY - 1997 SN - 0804728321 PB - Stanford Stanford university press DB - UniCat KW - J4620 KW - J1730 KW - J4600.10 KW - Emperors KW - -Mythology, Japanese KW - State, The KW - Administration KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Sovereignty KW - Political science KW - Japanese mythology KW - Rulers KW - Sovereigns KW - Heads of state KW - Kings and rulers KW - Monarchy KW - Japan: Politics and law -- state KW - Japan: Religion in general -- mythology KW - Japan: Politics and law -- history -- earliest and premodern KW - Japan KW - History KW - -Kings and rulers. KW - Mythology, Japanese. KW - State, The. KW - Kings and rulers. KW - Mythology, Japanese KW - Japanese emperors UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9296073 AB - This is the first comprehensive study of the sources and nature of classical Japanese kingship and state formation. To draw new insights from the rich body of extant documents and artifacts from early Japan, the author employs the analytical tools of recent Western historiography and anthropology, constructing an 'archeology of kingship' that begins by exposing the roots of Japanese monarchy in third-century chieftaincy. The book then traces sovereignty and polity through seven historical epochs to the archipelago's earliest state formation, Nihon. The book culminates in an account of the reign of the mid-eighth-century monarch Shomu, who represented the zenith of Japanese kingship. Although the forms of classical Japanese kingship - court, treasury, dynasty, and realm - continued to develop in subsequent centuries, all assumed their basic form in the age of Shomu. ER -