Breaking through the long-established image of Heian Japan (794-1185) as a culture dominated by ritualized aristocratic values, Yung-Hee Kim presents the picture of a country in transition, filled with a wide variety of common people responding to very ordinary situations. In popular songs called imayo, they expressed their concerns about religion, love, aging, and even current affairs. In 1179 Emperor Go-Shirakawa compiled Ryojin hisho, a twenty-volume collection of this song genre that juxtaposes the sacred with the ...
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Breaking through the long-established image of Heian Japan (794-1185) as a culture dominated by ritualized aristocratic values, Yung-Hee Kim presents the picture of a country in transition, filled with a wide variety of common people responding to very ordinary situations. In popular songs called imayo, they expressed their concerns about religion, love, aging, and even current affairs. In 1179 Emperor Go-Shirakawa compiled Ryojin hisho, a twenty-volume collection of this song genre that juxtaposes the sacred with the profane, the high with the low, the male with the female, the old with the new. Kim makes these songs the core of her book, in translations that faithfully reflect the sounds and images of the originals and bring them to life within their own literary and cultural context.
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Add this copy of Songs to Make the Dust Dance: the Ryojin Hisho of to cart. $72.00, very good condition, Sold by Moe's Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by University of California Press.
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Very good in Good jacket. The jacket is shelf worn with the top edge being very slightly creased. The book is in great condition with no visible flaws apart from some light handling wear. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmarked.
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Very Good+ in Near fine jacket. First printing, 1994, hardcover with blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 222pp., not illustrated. Book VG+ with hint of wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, previous owner's sticker to front flyleaf, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ near fine with mild edgewear, now in archival mylar wrap.
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