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Cultural Atlas of Japan
Daily Life of Women: an Encyclopedia from Ancient Times to the Present
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Medieval World
Great Events from History: The Middle Ages, 477-1453
Great Lives from History: The Middle Ages, 477-1453
Japan: an Illustrated Encyclopedia
Literature and its Times: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events That Influenced Them
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
Women in World History: a Biographical Encyclopedia
Lordship and Inheritance in Early Medieval Japan by 
Sugawara No Michizane and the Early Heian Court by
Winner of the 1990 American Historical Association's James Henry Breasted Prize. A great book for anyone interested in the Heian period of Japan.
Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription by
The poetry of the Heian court of Japan has typically been linked with the emergence of a distinct Japanese language and culture. This concept of a linguistically homogeneous and ethnically pure "Japaneseness" has been integral to the construction of a modern Japanese nation, especially during periods of western colonial expansion and cultural encroachment. But Thomas LaMarre argues in Uncovering Heian Japan that this need for a cultural unity--a singular Japanese identity--has resulted in an overemphasis of a relatively minor aspect of Heian poetry, obscuring not only its other significant elements but also the porousness of Heian society and the politics of poetic expression. Combining a pathbreaking visual analysis of the calligraphy with which this poetry was transcribed, a more traditional textual analysis, and a review of the politics of the period, LaMarre presents a dramatically new view of Heian poetry and culture. He challenges the assumption of a cohesive "national imagination," seeing instead an early Japan that is ethnically diverse, territorially porous, and indifferent to linguistic boundaries. Working through the problems posed by institutionalized notions of nationalism, nativism, and modernism, LaMarre rethinks the theories of scholars such as Suzuki Hideo, Yoshimoto Takaaki, and Komatsu Shigemi, in conjunction with theorists such as Derrida, Karatani, Foucault, and Deleuze. Contesting the notion that speech is central to the formation of community, Uncovering Heian Japan focuses instead on the potential centrality of the more figural operations of poetic practice. Specialists in Japanese history and culture as well as scholars working in other areas of cultural criticism will find that this book enriches their understanding of an early Japan that has exerted so much influence on later concepts of what it means to be Japanese.
