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Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions investigates some of the most historically important political and social issues raised by the Genpei War (1180-1185). This epic civil conflict, which ushered in Japan's age of the warriors, is most famously articulated in the monumental narrative Heike monogatari (The Tale of the Heike). Elizabeth Oyler's ambitious work lays out the complex interconnections between the numerous variant texts of the Heike and the historical events they describe. But Oyler's innovative methodology also brings other texts and genres—the Gikeiki, the Soga monogatari, the Azuma kagami, and pieces from the kōwakamai (ballad-dramas) repertoire—into her analysis. Rather than concentrating on individual texts, Oyler focuses on the inter-textual relationships within this larger body of narrative and drama and the collective role of these works in creating and disseminating stories about some of the Genpei War's most contentious events. In so doing, she works toward a new understanding of the underlying cultural problems of which these tales are symptomatic and which they attempt to address.

Historical fiction, Japanese --- Japanese literature --- History and criticism. --- Japan --- History --- Gempei Wars, 1180-1185 --- Literature and the war. --- History and criticism --- E-books --- J5924 --- J4202.10 --- Japan: Literature -- premodern fiction and prose -- Kamakura and Chūsei in general (1185-1600) --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- social classes and groups -- samurai, bushi

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"Addresses the impact of war and war memory during Japan's 'samurai age,' the period of time lasting from the establishment of the first shogunate as a result of the Genpei War (1180-1185) through the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868. The volume offers studies of 'cultural imprints,' defined as cultural traces holding specifically grounded historical meanings that persist through time, including literary works, artifacts, performing arts, and documents that were created by or about the samurai"-

Samurai --- Daimyo --- History. --- Japan --- History --- Historiography. --- Samurai culture, samurai in performing arts, samurai in premodern literature, Hideyoshi cultural legacy, medieval and Edo-period Japanese literature. --- al-Yābān --- Giappone --- Government of Japan --- Iapōnia --- I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ --- Japam --- Japani --- Japão --- Japon --- Japonia --- Japonsko --- Japonya --- Jih-pen --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Nihon --- Nihon-koku --- Nihonkoku --- Nippon --- Nippon-koku --- Nipponkoku --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Riben --- State of Japan --- Yābān --- Yapan --- Yīpun --- Zhāpān --- Япония --- اليابان --- يابان --- 日本 --- 日本国 --- Jepun --- Yapon --- Yapon Ulus --- I︠A︡pon --- Япон --- I︠A︡pon Uls --- Япон Улс

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J6834 --- J5810 --- J6800.30 --- Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- nō and kyōgen (noh) --- Japan: Literature -- drama -- nō (noh) and kyōgen --- Japan: Performing and media arts -- history -- Heian period (794-1185)

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