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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Medieval Japan"”.
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Rituals of the enchanted world: Noh theater and religion in medieval Japan
… study explores of the religious underpinnings of medieval Noh theater and its operating as a form of ritual. As a multifaceted performance art and genre of literature, Noh is understood as having rich and diverse religious influences, but is often studied as a predominantly artistic and literary …
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Divided Loyalties and Shifting Perceptions: The Jokyu Disturbance and Courtier-Warrior Relations in Medieval Japan
The Kamakura period in Japan (1185-1333) was the first time that aristocratic rule in Kyoto was confronted by a competing warrior power in Kamakura, known as the Kamakura Bakufu. Historians in recent decades have cogently redefined this period as a transitional age between Japan's classical and …
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Women's madness in three major dramatic traditions: Greek, Elizabethan, and Japanese Noh
… Ancient Greece, Elizabethan England, and Medieval Japan. Delineation of women's four social roles (virgin, wife, mother, and crone) is a methodological tool to analyze women's madness caused by friction between individual emotional needs and social roles ascribed by the several patriarchal …
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Tokusei: The Causes and Motivations of Rural Unrest in Fifteenth Century Japan
… ‘the first peasant uprising since the genesis of Japan’, the revolt culminated in commoners storming the temple of Daigoji, seizing debt records and other conveyance documents, and ceremoniously burning them while chanting for tokusei (lit. ‘virtuous governance’). Scholars have traditionally …
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Leaves and Flowers of Paulownia: Aristocratic Legitimacy of the Ashikaga Warrior Leaders
… sovereign power, such as the imperial family in Japan and foreign monarchs in East Asia, it refutes the notion of usurpation of the imperial throne being the basis of warrior legitimacy. Instead this work argues that the warrior leaders established their political presence through ritual …
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Shōkū and the imperial consort in dialogue: an analysis of Nyoin Gosho
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Medieval Japanese Zen: Catalyst for Symbol System Formation
… perspective as it flourished in twelfth century Japan is particularly interesting in light of the rapid proliferation of new symbol systems emerging in its wake. These included symbolic acts such as tea ceremony, Sumi-e painting styles, Zazen meditation, and haiku poetry. By creating, or …