Centers and Peripheries
Hardback
Publication Date: 28/02/2007
The first three centuries of the Heian period (794-1086) saw some of its most fertile innovations and epochal achievements in Japanese literature and the arts. It was also a time of important transitions in the spheres of religion and politics, as aristocratic authority was consolidated in Kyoto, powerful court factions and religious institutions emerged, and adjustments were made in the Chinese-style system of rulership. At the same time, the era's leaders faced serious challenges from the provinces that called into question the primacy and efficiency of the governmental system and tested the social/cultural status quo. ""Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries"", the first book of its kind to examine the early Heian from a wide variety of multidisciplinary perspectives, offers a fresh look at these seemingly contradictory trends. Essays by fourteen leading American, European, and Japanese scholars of art history, history, literature, and religions take up core texts and iconic images, cultural achievements and social crises, and the ever-fascinating patterns and puzzles of the time. The authors tackle some of Heian Japan's most enduring paradigms as well as hitherto unexplored problems in search of new ways of understanding the currents of change as well as the processes of institutionalization that shaped the Heian scene, defined the contours of its legacies, and make it one of the most intensely studied periods of the Japanese past.
- ISBN:
- 9780824830137
- 9780824830137
- Category:
- Asian history
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 28-02-2007
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 552
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x35mm
- Weight:
- 0.91kg
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