Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan: The Tenmu Dynasty, 650-800 By Herman Ooms
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press | ISBN: 0824832397 | edition 2008 | PDF | 353 pages | 3.5 mb
Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan is an ambitious and ground-breaking study that offers a new understanding of a formative stage in the development of the Japanese state. The late seventh and eighth centuries were a time of momentous change in Japan, much of it brought about by the short-lived Tenmu dynasty.