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Tsumi-- offence and retribution in early Japan
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ISBN: 1138863475 1315029588 1136874224 9781136874222 9781315029580 9781136874369 1136874364 9781136874291 1136874291 9781138863477 0700717080 9780700717088 Year: 2003 Publisher: London New York

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Covering the period from before the emergence of the first political units through to the formation of the Japanese ritsuryo state in the 8th century, this book offers a ground-breaking scholarly diachronic analysis of tsumi (offence and retribution) from a politico-historical perspective. Taking as its starting point the native forms of tsumi in the realms of myth and prayer, the study traces their development through the periods of the formation of the state and the centralization of the governing structure, to the introduction of a written-law system of governing. Through detailed and logic

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