Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)

249 Pages·2000·2.5 MB·English

by  Thomas LaMarre

Uncovering Heian Japan
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Acknowledgments vii
ANoteonTransliterationandIllustrations ix
Introduction:UnstatingHeianJapan 
PARTONE.THEINTERPRETATIONOFREBUSES
.RevisingtheRebus 
.KanaInscriptionandStylisticDifferentiation 
.CompositionandCompetition 
PARTTWO.INSCRIPTIONANDSENSATION
.TowardaHistoryofStyles 
.HeianCalligraphy 
.TheMultisensibleFigure:
AshideShita-eWakanrōeishō 
PARTTHREE.THESONGMACHINE
.TwoPrefaces,TwoModesofAppearance 
.Tsurayuki’sSongMachine 
Notes 
WorksConsulted 
Illustrations 
Index 
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Overthepasttenyears,thechaptersofthisbookhaveproliferatedasinsis-
tentlyasHeianwakaandtheircommentaries,threateningtounfurlacross
continentsanderaswithcountlessleavesofwords.Iwishtoexpressmy
heartfeltthankstothosewhohavehelpedmehackbacktherankergrowth.
Theresearchitselfseemedtooccupythelargerpartofmygraduateyears
attheUniversityofChicago,whereNormaFieldinparticularguidedand
encouragedmyeffortsateverystepalongtheway,fromteachingclassical
JapanesetointroducingmetoJapanesescholars,andpatientlyandgener-
ouslyreadingvariousdrafts.Moreover,Normaandtheothermembersof
mycommittee,HarryHarootunian,MellieIvy,andBillSibley,didagreat
deal to establish the critical trajectoryof this study, advising me to con-
siderseriouslythequestionofthemediationoftraditionwithrespectto
HeianJapananddirectingmyattentiontotheformationofmodernityin
Japan.Iamdeeplyindebtedtothemfortheirintellectualcommitmentand
encouragementovertheyears.
Becauseofthecomplexityoftheproject,however,itwasonlyafterIhad
completedadissertationdealingwithMeijiandTaishōJapanthatIwasable
todevoteafullyear(–)inJapantofurtherresearch,undertheguid-
anceofMitaniKuniaki,withoutwhoseexpertiseandenthusiasmIwould
havebeenunabletosteermywaythroughthelabyrinthofclassicalscholar-
ship. Narita Makoto and especiallyTsuzura Junji also contributed to the
projectinvariousways.
Thebulkofthisbookwascomposedduringayear(–)attheSo-
ciety for the Humanities at Cornell University,where conversations with
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AlthoughpinyinisthepreferredsystemofromanizationforChinese,be-
cause all the English-language sources for this study employ the Wade-
Gillessystem,Ihaveusedthelatterthroughout.Fortheromanizationof
modernJapanese,IusetheHepburnsystem,withcertainstandardmodifi-
cations.ForHeianJapanese,inordertoindicateitsdifferencesfrommod-
ern Japanese, I use ti, tu, and si instead of chi, tsu, and shi. In addition,
followingstandardpractice,IadheretothesyllablesofclassicalJapanese
ratherthantransformingthemintomodernpronunciations:forexample,
seuratherthanshō,andsoon.Whilesomescholarsalsomarkthehofha,hi,
hu,andsoonwithanFinordertoindicatethedifferentpronunciationof
theHeianh,Isimplyemployh.Forthemostpart,inthetextIusetheHeian
transliterationforHeiantermssuchasomohuorwominahesi.Insomeother
instancesthemoderntermissofamiliarthatIusemoderntranscription,
notablywithawase(ratherthantheHeianahase).
TransliterationofthepoemsofMan’yōshūisquitecomplex.Inthevery
fewinstancesinwhichItransliteratewordsfromMan’yōpoems,IuseHeian
transliterationtoavoidintroducingyetanothersystemoftransliteration.
Since,innearlyallthesecases,IgivesomeversionoftheoriginalinChi-
nesecharacters,thosewhoareconcernedwithphonetictransliterationcan
refertotheoriginal.Inacouplepoemsitwasimpossibletoprovideallthe
charactersoftheoriginal(becauseofthepaucityofcharactersinmyJapa-
nesesoftware);theseraresubstitutionsoromissionsaredescribedinthe
notes.
Asregardsillustrations,therearenineexamplesofcalligraphyappended
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