Daimokutate : Ritual placatory performance of the Genpei War

The Japanese performance art known as Daimokutate2 articulates one of Japan's most important historical narratives. A coming-of-age ritual once practiced in numerous rural villages in central Japan, Daimokutate involves a group of young men taking the roles of characters from the Heike monogatari (Tale of the Heike), Japan's epic war tale chronicling the Genpei War (1180-85), a conflict that brought the warrior class to power both politically and socially. In Daimokutate, the participants take turns recounting one of several felicitous narratives derived from the Heike as a dedicatory ritual before the god of their local shrine. Performances occur annually at the end of the harvest season.Not

Japan on the Medieval Globe: The Wakan rōeishū and Imagined Landscapes in Early Medieval Texts

This essay explores how the poetry collection Wakan rōeishū becomes an important allusive referent for two medieval Japanese works, the travelogue Kaidōki and the nō play Tsunemasa. In particular, it focuses on how Chinese poems from the collection become the means for describing Japanese spaces and their links to power, in the context of a changing political landscape

The Heike in Japan (Chinese)

Significant scholarship on oral tradition in Japan has focused on the composition and performance of the Tale of the Heike, the medieval narrative recounting the Gempei War (1180-85 CE), the watershed event marking the fall of the aristocracy and the rise of the warrior class. The Heike exists today in about one hundred variants, ranging in style from documentary (often Chinese-language) chronicle to lyrical vernacular tale.Not

Legislative Documents

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Osaka City University-University of Illinois Symposium 2015 Itinerary

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