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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Muromachi"”.
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Of Mice and Maidens: Ideologies of Interspecies Romance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan
… field of animal studies by examining otogizoshi (Muromachi/early Edo illustrated narrative fiction) concerning relationships between human women and male mice. The earliest of these is Nezumi no soshi ("The Tale of the Mouse"), a fifteenth century ko-e ("small scroll") attributed to court painter …
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TRACES OF A LOST LANDSCAPE TRADITION AND CROSS-CULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN KOREA, CHINA AND JAPAN IN THE EARLY JOSEON PERIOD (1392-1550)
… by Japanese connoisseurs during the Muromachi (1392-1573) and early Edo (1603-1867) periods. The result is an expanded view of the vigor and creativity of the early Joseon period and its significance in the larger history of Korean art and culture that can be achieved through art …
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Tokusei: The Causes and Motivations of Rural Unrest in Fifteenth Century Japan
This dissertation examines the origins of the popularly led tokusei revolt in Daigo, near Kyoto, in the ninth month of 1428. Described by contemporary commentators as ‘the first peasant uprising since the genesis of Japan’, the revolt culminated in commoners storming the temple of Daigoji, seizing …
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Good to Fight, Good to Eat, Good to Think: Food Disputes in Premodern Japanese Texts
This thesis analyses part of a corpus of premodern Japanese texts usually referred to as irui-gassen mono (“tales of battles between nonhuman beings”). More specifically, it investigates texts that describe disputes between anthropomorphic foods and drinks. This thesis shows the multifarious nature …