Authorizing the Shogunate — Selinger Umbrellas Drawing on hundreds of sources

Drawing on hundreds of sources

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with a contribution by Dorinda Evans

Combining extensive archival research with close readings of a broad spectrum of texts and images from the late Wilhelmine and Weimar periods

Authorizing the Shogunate — Selinger Umbrellas Drawing on hundreds of sourcesBy Vyjayanthi Selinger Associate Professor of Asian Studies The Genpei War of 1180 1185 signaled a crucial shift in Japanese history because it gave birth to the shogunate, or government run by warriors. How was the emergence of this new polity following a contentious civil war explained in literary texts? This book argues that political authority is made visible in the variant texts of the Heike monogatari corpus through ritual that map the ideal