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Hardcover Government by Mourning: Death and Political Integration in Japan, 1603-1912 Book

ISBN: 0674066820

ISBN13: 9780674066823

Government by Mourning: Death and Political Integration in Japan, 1603-1912

(Book #347 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)

From the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century, the Tokugawa shogunate enacted and enforced myriad laws and ordinances to control nearly every aspect of Japanese life, including observance of a person's death. In particular, the shoguns Tsunayoshi and Yoshimune issued strict decrees on mourning and abstention that dictated compliance throughout the land and survived the political upheaval of the Meiji Restoration to persist well into the...

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