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"For over three hundred years during the Heian period (794-1185), execution was customarily abolished in favor of banishment. During the same period, exile emerged widely as a concern within literature and legend, in poetry and diaries, and in the cultic imagination, as expressed in oracles and revelations. While exile was thus one sanction available to the state, it was also something more: a powerful trope through which members of court society imagined the banishment of gods and heavenly beings, of legendary and literary characters, and of historical figures, some transformed into spirits. This compelling and well-researched volume is the first in English to explore the rich resonance of exile in the cultural life of the Japanese court. Rejecting the notion that such narratives merely reflect a timeless literary archetype, Jonathan Stockdale shows instead that in every case narratives of exile emerged from particular historical circumstances--moments in which elites in the capita l sought to reveal and to re-imagine their world and the circulation of power within it. By exploring the relationship of banishment to the structures of inclusion and exclusion upon which Heian court society rested, Stockdale moves beyond the historiographical discussion of "center and margin" to offer instead a theory of exile itself. Stockdale's arguments are situated in astute and careful readings of Heian sources. His analysis of a literary narrative, the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, for example, shows how Kaguyahime's exile from the "Capital of the Moon" to earth implicitly portrays the world of the Heian court as a polluted periphery. His exploration of one of the most well-known historical instances of banishment, that of Sugawara Michizane, illustrates how the political sanction of exile could be met with a religious rejoinder through which an exiled noble is reinstated in divine form, first as a vengeful spirit and then as a deity worshipped at the highest levels of court socie ty." -- Publisher's description.

Exile (Punishment) --- Exile (Punishment) in literature. --- Japanese literature --- History and criticism. --- Sugawara, Michizane, --- Cult. --- Banishment --- Deportation as a punishment --- Ostracism (Exile) --- Alternatives to imprisonment --- Sugawara no Michizane, --- Sugahara, Michizane, --- 管原道眞, --- 管原道真, --- 菅原道眞, --- 菅原道真, --- 菅原道貞, --- J5500.30 --- J5509 --- J4270 --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- Heian period (794-1185) --- Japan: Literature -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- penology -- prisons and punishment --- Exile (Punishment) in literature --- History and criticism

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J5500.30 --- J5509 --- J4144 --- J4176 --- Japanese literature --- -Feminism and literature --- -Feminist literary criticism --- -Literary criticism, Feminist --- Feminism and literature --- Feminist criticism --- Literature --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- Heian period (794-1185) --- Japan: Literature -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural trends and movements -- modernism --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- gender roles, women, feminism --- Women authors --- -History and criticism. --- Feminist literary criticism --- Women and literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- -Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- Heian period (794-1185) --- Literary criticism, Feminist --- Women authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Literature and feminism

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In Man’yōshū and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan , Torquil Duthie examines the literary representation of the late seventh-century Yamato court as a realm of 'all under heaven.” Through close readings of the early volumes of the poetic anthology Man’yōshū (c. eighth century) and the last volumes of the official history Nihon shoki (c. 720), Duthie shows how competing political interests and different styles of representation produced not a unified ideology, but rather a “bundle” of disparate imperial imaginaries collected around the figure of the imperial sovereign. Central to this process was the creation of a tradition of vernacular poetry in which Yamato courtiers could participate and recognize themselves as the cultured officials of the new imperial realm.

J5715 --- J5500.30 --- J3308.20 --- J5501 --- J3320 --- Japan: Literature -- poetry -- Waka, tanka, chōka -- Man'yōshū --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- Heian period (794-1185) --- Japan: History -- ancient and early histories -- Nihon shoki (Nihongi) --- Japan: Literature -- policy, legislation, guidelines, codes of behavior (government, internal...) --- Japan: History -- Kodai -- Asuka and Nara period (538-794) --- Courts and courtiers in literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- Japan -- History -- 645-794. --- Japan -- Intellectual life -- To 1185. --- Japanese literature -- To 1185 -- History and criticism. --- Japanese poetry -- To 1185 -- History and criticism. --- Man’yo ̄shu ̄ -- Criticism, Textual. --- Nihon shoki -- Criticism, Textual. --- Political culture -- Japan -- History -- To 1500. --- Politics and literature -- Japan -- History -- To 1500. --- Imperialism in literature --- Courts and courtiers in literature --- Politics and literature --- Political culture --- Japanese poetry --- Japanese literature --- Languages & Literatures --- East Asian Languages & Literatures --- History --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Man'yōsh --- Nihon shoki --- Criticism, Textual. --- Japan --- Intellectual life --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Political aspects --- Nihongi --- Yamato fumi --- Yamatobumi --- Ilbon sŏgi --- Nihon-gi --- Chronicles of Japan --- Chronicle of Japan --- 日本書紀 --- Culture --- Political science --- Rikkokushi --- Man'yōshū --- Man'yôsyû --- Man̄yefushifu --- Manʺësi︠u︡ --- Mannyōshū --- Manyŏpchip --- Wan yeh chi --- Nishi Honganji-bon Man'yōshū --- Man.yôshû