Songs to Make the Dust Dance: The Ryojin Hisho of Twelfth-Century Japan

by Yung-Hee Kim

Book Overview

Breaking through the long-established image of Heian Japan (794-1185) as a culture dominated by ritualized aristocratic values, Yung-Hee Kim presents a picture of a country in transition, filled with a wide variety of common people responding to very ordinary situations. The court does not disappear, but rather becomes part of a larger society inhabited by Buddhist nuns and mountain ascetics, farmers and fishermen, beggars and gamblers. In popular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520415264
• ISBN13: 9780520415263
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"