Search Results for: Imagining Exile In Early Japan

For over three hundred years during the Heian period (794–1185), execution was customarily abolished in favor of banishment. During the same period, exile eme

In Man’yōshū and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan, Torquil Duthie examines the literary representation of the late seventh-century Yamato court as a

DIVShows how a modern nationalism was constructed in Japan from existing notions of community, at a time before the idea of “nation.”/div