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Changing the Calendar: Royal Political Theology and the Suppression of the Tachibana Naramaro Conspiracy of 757 |
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Bender, Ross
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| Source |
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
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| Volume | v.37 n.2 |
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| Date | 2010 |
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| Pages | 223 - 245 |
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| Publisher | Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture=南山宗教文化研究所 |
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http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/
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| Location | 名古屋, 日本 [Nagoya, Japan] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | nengo; Senmyo; choku; shoku Nihongi; Koken Tenno; Tachibana Naramaro; omens; edicts; shinto |
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| Abstract | In the aftermath of the suppression of the Tachibana Naramaro conspiracy of 757, the Empress Koken (“Kōken/Shōtoku Tennō”) issued two edicts articulating the royal political theology of the time. The first edict was a senmyo, inscribed in the Shoku Nihongi in Old Japanese; the second was a choku in Chinese. A miraculous omen, the apparition of a silkworn cocoon with a message woven into its surface, was interpreted as the occasion for a change in the calendrical era name, or nengo. This article argues that the imperial edicts express a coherent ideology combining ideas from a cultic martrix in which may be discerned proto-Shinto, Buddhist, and Confucian elements. |
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| ISSN | 03041042 (P) |
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| Hits | 578 |
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| Created date | 2013.01.11 |
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| Modified date | 2017.09.07 |
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