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

by Yung-Hee Kim

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520303067

ISBN13:9780520303065

Release Date:August 2018

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.79 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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