Reflecting the Past: Place, Language, and Principle in Japan's Medieval Mirror Genre

by Erin L Brightwell

Reflecting the Past is the first English-language study to address the role of historiography in medieval Japan, an age at the time widely believed to be one of irreversible decline. Drawing on a decade of research, including work with medieval manuscripts, it analyzes a set of texts--eight Mirrors--that recount the past in an effort to order the world around them. They confront rebellions, civil war, "China," attempted invasions,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674247817
• ISBN13: 9780674247819
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"