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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Premodern Japan"”.
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Primers, Commentaries, and Kanbun Literacy in Japanese Literary Culture, 950-1250CE
… and cultural contact in the literature of premodern Japan by examining the primers used to study Chinese-style literature in the Heian and early medieval periods (c. 900-1250CE). Much of Heian literary production was centered on kanbun: "Chinese-style" writing that resembled classical …
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In the Name of the Realm: The Loyal Service of House Hosokawa in Sixteenth-Century Japan
Japan’s sengoku—warring states—period (1467–1615) has been popularized in the West by the 2024 television adaptation of James Clavell’s 1975 novel Shōgun. But the period has not received scholarly attention in the West commensurate with its popularity—this is a natural consequence of the …
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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 …