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Monumenta Nipponica, 1992

CONTENTS Preface ix 1940—A Year of Singular Importance 1 Introduction 3 PART I. CREATING IMPERIAL... more CONTENTS Preface ix 1940—A Year of Singular Importance 1 Introduction 3 PART I. CREATING IMPERIAL HISTORY 1. Kojiki (712): Japan's First Book 8 Date and Authorship 8 Creating Imperial History 9 Myths of the Age of the Gods 11 Tales of the Age of Human Emperors 14 ...

Journal of Japanese Studies, 2013

ABSTRACT

The American Historical Review, Jun 1, 1997

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jul 30, 1993

University of Hawaii Press eBooks, May 31, 2009

The Journal of Asian Studies, Aug 1, 2000

Routledge eBooks, Jul 14, 2017

Mariner's Mirror, 2009

People from Japan who bore the literary, philosophical, medical and techno logical knowledge and ... more People from Japan who bore the literary, philosophical, medical and techno logical knowledge and materials that helped to create ancient (700–1185 ad) and medieval (1185–1600) culture had to cross treacherous seas to reach their diverse destinations. No travellers viewed their imminent voyages with greater trepidation than the emissaries dispatched by the Nara court (710–84) to the mighty tang Empire (618–907). the man’yōshū (an anthology of poetry compiled in the mid-eighth century) contains many poems composed before the departure of these official envoys; they almost always convey anxiety about the safety on the journey, as in this waka written in 733:

Page 1. Martial Arts Swordsmanship and Archery G. CAMERON HURST III Page 2. Page 3. Armed Martial... more Page 1. Martial Arts Swordsmanship and Archery G. CAMERON HURST III Page 2. Page 3. Armed Martial Arts of Japan This On. A7NP-AOJ-J1SU Page 4. Page 5. G. CAMERON HURST III Armed Martial Arts of Japan Swordsmanship ...

University of Hawaii Press eBooks, Jul 14, 2020

for help in various aspects of my work. In 2014, the History Department and the College of Humani... more for help in various aspects of my work. In 2014, the History Department and the College of Humanities at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and the Northeast Asia Committee of the Association for Asian Studies funded me for a two-month research period at the Research Center for the Study of Japanese Culture (Nichibunken) outside of Kyoto. Thanks also go to Kiki Leinch for arranging a visit to the Uji tea company Marukyū Koyamaen during that summer of 2014. Harald Fuess, then of Heidelberg University, gave me some helpful pointers on commodity history. I would like to admit the great debts I owe to Eric Rath of the University of Kansas and Rebecca Corbett, then a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, for the advice and references that they gave me for this study of tea during the Edo and modern periods of Japanese history. I would

The Journal of Asian Studies, Aug 1, 1989

for help in various aspects of my work. In 2014, the History Department and the College of Humani... more for help in various aspects of my work. In 2014, the History Department and the College of Humanities at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and the Northeast Asia Committee of the Association for Asian Studies funded me for a two-month research period at the Research Center for the Study of Japanese Culture (Nichibunken) outside of Kyoto. Thanks also go to Kiki Leinch for arranging a visit to the Uji tea company Marukyū Koyamaen during that summer of 2014. Harald Fuess, then of Heidelberg University, gave me some helpful pointers on commodity history. I would like to admit the great debts I owe to Eric Rath of the University of Kansas and Rebecca Corbett, then a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, for the advice and references that they gave me for this study of tea during the Edo and modern periods of Japanese history. I would

The American Historical Review, Jun 1, 1997

Monumenta Nipponica, Dec 1, 2007

FOR two weeks every autumn the Nara National Museum is a madhouse swarming with uniformed high sc... more FOR two weeks every autumn the Nara National Museum is a madhouse swarming with uniformed high school students, antiquarians, elderly couples in awe of the imperial family, and a few curious foreigners. The event is the annual exhibition of imperial possessions stored for over a thousand years in one of the world’s oldest wooden repositories—the Treasure House (Shôsôin 正倉院) on the grounds of Tôdaiji 東大寺 in Nara. Consisting of the personal effects of Emperor Shômu 聖武 (r. 724–749) and other courtly accoutrements, the renowned and exotic objects were donated at the time of the emperor’s death in 756 to the temple, the construction of which had been the major project of his reign. The collection includes bowls and vessels, musical instruments, furniture, medicine, clothes, weapons, mirrors, beads, and innumerable other items from an otherwise remote era. An annual rite since 1948, this exhibition has helped stimulate popular interest in Japan’s distant past while at the same time enhancing the aura surrounding a once-sacrosanct reigning family. Among the priceless rarities are about ten to twelve thousand fragmentary documents, perhaps the most illuminating and, until the recent excavation of wooden tablets with writing on them (mokkan 木簡), copious historical materials for eighth-century Japan. Covering an era from 702 through 780, the documents tell historians more about such topics as family, diet, labor, trade, government, religion, and finance than nearly any other written source, and they do so with a vitality and realism that few other records can command. In this article, I shall examine four interrelated questions: 1) what kinds of documents does the Shôsôin cache comprise? 2) how did they come to be preserved? 3) by what process did they come to be published? and 4) how have they changed historians’ interpretations of the Nara era and in turn been reviewed and reread in

Monumenta Nipponica, 1992

CONTENTS Preface ix 1940—A Year of Singular Importance 1 Introduction 3 PART I. CREATING IMPERIAL... more CONTENTS Preface ix 1940—A Year of Singular Importance 1 Introduction 3 PART I. CREATING IMPERIAL HISTORY 1. Kojiki (712): Japan's First Book 8 Date and Authorship 8 Creating Imperial History 9 Myths of the Age of the Gods 11 Tales of the Age of Human Emperors 14 ...

Journal of Japanese Studies, 2013

ABSTRACT

The American Historical Review, Jun 1, 1997

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jul 30, 1993

University of Hawaii Press eBooks, May 31, 2009

The Journal of Asian Studies, Aug 1, 2000

Routledge eBooks, Jul 14, 2017

Mariner's Mirror, 2009

People from Japan who bore the literary, philosophical, medical and techno logical knowledge and ... more People from Japan who bore the literary, philosophical, medical and techno logical knowledge and materials that helped to create ancient (700–1185 ad) and medieval (1185–1600) culture had to cross treacherous seas to reach their diverse destinations. No travellers viewed their imminent voyages with greater trepidation than the emissaries dispatched by the Nara court (710–84) to the mighty tang Empire (618–907). the man’yōshū (an anthology of poetry compiled in the mid-eighth century) contains many poems composed before the departure of these official envoys; they almost always convey anxiety about the safety on the journey, as in this waka written in 733:

Page 1. Martial Arts Swordsmanship and Archery G. CAMERON HURST III Page 2. Page 3. Armed Martial... more Page 1. Martial Arts Swordsmanship and Archery G. CAMERON HURST III Page 2. Page 3. Armed Martial Arts of Japan This On. A7NP-AOJ-J1SU Page 4. Page 5. G. CAMERON HURST III Armed Martial Arts of Japan Swordsmanship ...

University of Hawaii Press eBooks, Jul 14, 2020

for help in various aspects of my work. In 2014, the History Department and the College of Humani... more for help in various aspects of my work. In 2014, the History Department and the College of Humanities at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and the Northeast Asia Committee of the Association for Asian Studies funded me for a two-month research period at the Research Center for the Study of Japanese Culture (Nichibunken) outside of Kyoto. Thanks also go to Kiki Leinch for arranging a visit to the Uji tea company Marukyū Koyamaen during that summer of 2014. Harald Fuess, then of Heidelberg University, gave me some helpful pointers on commodity history. I would like to admit the great debts I owe to Eric Rath of the University of Kansas and Rebecca Corbett, then a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, for the advice and references that they gave me for this study of tea during the Edo and modern periods of Japanese history. I would

The Journal of Asian Studies, Aug 1, 1989

for help in various aspects of my work. In 2014, the History Department and the College of Humani... more for help in various aspects of my work. In 2014, the History Department and the College of Humanities at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and the Northeast Asia Committee of the Association for Asian Studies funded me for a two-month research period at the Research Center for the Study of Japanese Culture (Nichibunken) outside of Kyoto. Thanks also go to Kiki Leinch for arranging a visit to the Uji tea company Marukyū Koyamaen during that summer of 2014. Harald Fuess, then of Heidelberg University, gave me some helpful pointers on commodity history. I would like to admit the great debts I owe to Eric Rath of the University of Kansas and Rebecca Corbett, then a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, for the advice and references that they gave me for this study of tea during the Edo and modern periods of Japanese history. I would

The American Historical Review, Jun 1, 1997

Monumenta Nipponica, Dec 1, 2007

FOR two weeks every autumn the Nara National Museum is a madhouse swarming with uniformed high sc... more FOR two weeks every autumn the Nara National Museum is a madhouse swarming with uniformed high school students, antiquarians, elderly couples in awe of the imperial family, and a few curious foreigners. The event is the annual exhibition of imperial possessions stored for over a thousand years in one of the world’s oldest wooden repositories—the Treasure House (Shôsôin 正倉院) on the grounds of Tôdaiji 東大寺 in Nara. Consisting of the personal effects of Emperor Shômu 聖武 (r. 724–749) and other courtly accoutrements, the renowned and exotic objects were donated at the time of the emperor’s death in 756 to the temple, the construction of which had been the major project of his reign. The collection includes bowls and vessels, musical instruments, furniture, medicine, clothes, weapons, mirrors, beads, and innumerable other items from an otherwise remote era. An annual rite since 1948, this exhibition has helped stimulate popular interest in Japan’s distant past while at the same time enhancing the aura surrounding a once-sacrosanct reigning family. Among the priceless rarities are about ten to twelve thousand fragmentary documents, perhaps the most illuminating and, until the recent excavation of wooden tablets with writing on them (mokkan 木簡), copious historical materials for eighth-century Japan. Covering an era from 702 through 780, the documents tell historians more about such topics as family, diet, labor, trade, government, religion, and finance than nearly any other written source, and they do so with a vitality and realism that few other records can command. In this article, I shall examine four interrelated questions: 1) what kinds of documents does the Shôsôin cache comprise? 2) how did they come to be preserved? 3) by what process did they come to be published? and 4) how have they changed historians’ interpretations of the Nara era and in turn been reviewed and reread in