Authorizing the Shogunate: Ritual and Material Symbolism in the Literary Construction of Warrior Order

by Vyjayanthi R Selinger

The Genpei War of 1180-1185 signaled a crucial shift in Japanese history because it gave birth to the shogunate, or government run by warriors. How was the emergence of this new polity following a contentious civil war explained in literary texts? This book argues that political authority is made visible in the variant texts of the Heike monogatari corpus through rituals that map the ideal social-cosmic order, overwriting untidy historical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004248102
• ISBN13: 9789004248106
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.4"