Heinz-Murray 2E.book

312 Part IV: East Asian Civilization nent or irreversible. At the end of the mourning period the body received its second and fi ...

Chapter 8 Japan 313 Ten days after sokui rei, Emperor Akihito performed daijosai in the ancient manner. A more ancient ceremony ...

314 Part IV: East Asian Civilization Between 607 and 837, 19 formal missions were sent from Japan to China. These voyages were e ...

Chapter 8 Japan 315 No Japanese could read the sutras, but the Buddha image aroused intense interest and controversy. Here was a ...

316 Part IV: East Asian Civilization In the same year as his first embassy to China he had con- structed the Horyuji Temple. Thi ...

Chapter 8 Japan 317 earn merit, and there are still in existence copies commissioned by Emperor Shomu, the Empress Komyo, the da ...

318 Part IV: East Asian Civilization Shinto god of war, became a bodhisattva of high rank—and Buddhist monks began to participat ...

Chapter 8 Japan 319 The efforts to reform the state are tied up with the fortunes of the Soga clan. They rose with the coming of ...

320 Part IV: East Asian Civilization course of some centuries finally overtopped it” (Sansom 1952:106). No scholar-official clas ...

Chapter 8 Japan 321 several remarkable things about this. The first is that women were allowed to learn to read and write. The s ...

322 Part IV: East Asian Civilization perfumed notes, the 13-stringed koto—were intense emotions: longing for past lovers, melanc ...

Chapter 8 Japan 323 A major subplot is the love of Genji for Fujitsubo, his father’s favorite con- sort who later was promoted t ...

324 Part IV: East Asian Civilization The Tale of Genji, as Paul Varley writes, illustrates the value of mono no aware—“sensitivi ...

Chapter 8 Japan 325 fragments that are now in the Tokugawa and Goto Museums. The artists sought to portray the most emotionally ...

326 Part IV: East Asian Civilization saying, “When a zuryo falls down, he comes up holding dirt.” Everyone, peas- ants and arist ...

Chapter 8 Japan 327 The Shogunate Three great families emerged and competed in the Heian period: the Fuji- wara, the Taira, and ...

328 Part IV: East Asian Civilization This was the system of government until 1867: under the title shogun, con- trol was exercis ...

Chapter 8 Japan 329 The contrasts with Kyoto were great; whereas Kyoto was laid out like a Chinese city on a north-south axis an ...

330 Part IV: East Asian Civilization Warfare was a highly ritualized affair in the beginning of the samurai period. As seen in w ...

Chapter 8 Japan 331 Vassal loyalty is the principal theme of the war tales: absolute self-sacrific- ing loyalty of a warrior for ...