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Paperback Songs to Make the Dust Dance: The Ryojin Hisho of Twelfth-Century Japan Book

ISBN: 0520303067

ISBN13: 9780520303065

Songs to Make the Dust Dance: The Ryojin Hisho of Twelfth-Century Japan

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Breaking through the long-established image of Heian Japan (794-1185) as a culture dominated by ritualized aristocratic values, Yung-Hee Kim presents a picture of a country in transition, filled with a wide variety of common people responding to very ordinary situations. The court does not disappear, but rather becomes part of a larger society inhabited by Buddhist nuns and mountain ascetics, farmers and fishermen, beggars and gamblers. In popular...

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