... demonstrates the vital importance of alternative narrative modes and spatial configurations for the Heike as history: we see Kiyomori as an alternative tennō , possessed with the demon-quelling authority of ancient sage kings, yet deriving authority and power from alliances with peripheral groups, while...

... Shōwa shi: jibunsbi no kokoromi ( Tokyo : Chüō Kōron , 1975 ). 6 Osamu Kuno and Jirō Kamishima (eds.). “Tennō set” ronshū , 2 vols. ( Tokyo : San'ichi Shobō , 1974 ). 7 Shizuo Yuri and Kunihiko Higashi (eds.) Tenno goroku ( Tokyo...

... Inoue Mitsusada, Nihon kokka no kigen (Tokyo, i960) and Nihon kodai kokka no kenkyū (Tokyo, 1965). 5 Ishii Ryōsuke, Tennō (Tokyo, 1950) is probably the best general history of the dynasty, and the periodization used in that work has been adopted here in distinguishing “archaic” from...

... –47. Asahi Journal . 1989 . “Tennō zenesuto ga rettō o ootta hi: 2/2 4 taisō dokyumento” [The day the emperor's general strike blanketed the archipelago: 2/24 imperial funeral document]. Asahi jaanaru , March 10, 17–21. Baudrillard Jean . 1980 . “The Implosion of Meaning in the Media...

... books ordinarily details not worth mentioning, but in this book they produce such overwhelming irritation as to transcend all else. One page of many may be cited. On page 58, toward the end of a section resembling biblical genesis we find "In 708 the mother of Mommu Tenno came to the throne as GEMMYO...

... biblical genesis we find "In 708 the mother of Mommu Tenno came to the throne as GEMMYO TENNO and, in 715,. she was followed by her daughter as Gensho until she abdicated in favor of the Crown Prince who became SHOMU TENNO in 724." Later on the same page Shomu Tenno is mentioned in small letters...

... volumes of the Meiji Tenno-ki (Records of the Meiji emperor), which Keene has mined as no other scholar working in English. Keene also makes extensive use of the Komei Tenno-ki (Records of Emperor Komei), diaries and BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 619 letters of Japanese and foreigners who knew the emperor, newspaper...

... of divine kingship came to invest the sacerdotal tenno in the late seventh century" (p. 11). These trends reached their zenith in the early eighth century when Shomu Tenno ruled Japan as "sage king, manifest deity, and servant of the Buddha" (p. 13). (Here and elsewhere, the author eschews use of the usual...

... imperial title tennō (pp. 46, 49), and it was also roughly around his time that a loosely united Yamato kingdom was finally transformed into a more centralized country that, for the first time, began to call itself Nihon (Japan). Yet, as Herman Ooms observes in this fine new book, Tenmu is “portrayed...

... is carefully researched and annotated with 720 pages of text, 140 pages of footnotes, and a substantial bibliography, glossary, and index. The majority of the footnotes (hundreds of them) refer to the twelve volumes of the Meiji Tenno-ki (Records of the Meiji emperor), which Keene has mined as no other scholar...

... , 2006 . 485 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper). Furthermore, the tome draws on a wide variety of texts. These include not merely seminal articles interpreted in their entirety—chapter 6, “Takeda Sachiko: Roads in the Tennō -centered Polity” (Piggott, pp. 147–65); chapter 8, “Morita Tei: Toward...

.... YOSHIDA SHOIN AND JAPAN'S EXPANSION Day by day I think of you As I travel westward. Now at dawn, after my cleansing, I bow in reverence To the noble Tenno's palace: Melancholy Grips my heart at this holy spot. The palace is decayed Will it ever rise again in splendor? Mountains and streams alone Have...

... those decades. While this book is not an easy read, it contains a wealth of new information for the determined reader who wants to know what happened after the failure of Go-Daigo Tennō's restoration in 1336, and until the time when Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358–1408) came to dominate the reunified court...

...) for Honcho monzui; Tochusho for To-no-chujo (pp. 21 and 23); Koma for Koma (p. 41, note 1), and Ko\yo\u tenno for Kogyo\u tenno (pp. 44 and 46). The most extreme case occurs in a note on p. 34, where a work "Gentei ya\usho" is mentioned. Reference to the index, where the Chinese characters for the name...

..., that there should be a number of inaccuracies in the forms in which names of persons, books, etc., appear in the book. For instance, we find Honcho bunsui (p. 32) for Honcho monzui; Tochusho for To-no-chujo (pp. 21 and 23); Koma for Koma (p. 41, note 1), and Ko\yo\u tenno for Kogyo\u tenno (pp. 44 and 46). The most...

... a monographic study of the process of sentially, the thesis propounded by Kichisa- industrialization in Japan with focus on the buro's work is that the system of imperial development of entrepreneurship, his real in- absolutism (tenno set) was a consequence of tentions are much more ambitious. His purpose...

... as an Ideology), ( Tokyo : Iwanami , 1963 ) p. 44 . 5 Quotations in this paragraph are from Kawashima Takeyoshi, Ibid., p. 43. Jimmu Tennō: first mythical emperor and ancestor of the imperial family. Sacred Treasures: the three imperial regalia (sword, mirror, and jewel). 6 Tokiomi...

... importantly, The Actual Record of the Showa Emperor ( Shōwa Tennō Jitsuroku) . Wetzler also helps explain Japanese-language historiographical debates. Scholars will find the bibliography of great assistance. The book would be most useful to non-Japanese-speaking scholars interested in the Japanese emperor...

... turns to Ivan Morris and Sir George Sansom for descriptions of Japanese character; to Morgan Young's 1928 book, Japan under the Taisho Tenno to depict the Taisho period; and to Hugh Byas, Richard Storry, and Maruyama Masao to summarize the 1930s. One would like to think that we have learned a bit more...

... debriefing, it would have been conducted by a controller and then reported to the council. Nor would the council have ordered fortification of the capital (p. 113). They may well have recommended such action to the tennō , who would have ordered the job done. These are small points, for sure...