Flowering Tales: Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan
(Book #427 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)
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Telling stories: that sounds innocuous enough. But for the first chronicle in the Japanese vernacular, A Tale of Flowering Fortunes (Eiga monogatari), there was more to worry about than a good yarn. The health of the community was at stake. Flowering Tales is the first extensive literary study of this historical tale, which covers about 150 years of births, deaths, and happenings in late Heian society, a golden age of court...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674244400
ISBN13:9780674244405
Release Date:January 2020
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:322 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"
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