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Critical translation of eighth- and ninth-century Japanse legal decrees and edicts concerning religious affairs, administrative careers and ranks, and provincial administration. Follows books eight to twenty of the same collection.
Considerable quantities of decrees were issued in Japan after the implementation of the administrative and penal codes in 702. Parts of these decrees were officially compiled in 820, 869 and 907, and these three compilations were recast in the...
Approximately a thousand Japanese civil servants and minor officials of the early eleventh century are catalogued within these pages. Nominations and promotions depended increasingly on heredity rather than merit, and it became accordingly difficult...
Several inauspicious events that the emperor saw as proof of his ancestral divinities’ irritation marred the end of 1040. Sukefusa’s notes reveal something of the emperor’s beliefs and of his relationship with the divinities, at a time when...
The daily notes of leading state dignitaries, nikki, are among the most important primary sources of Japan’s history of the XIth and the XIIth centuries. Fujiwara no Sekefusa’s notes constitute great documentation on the reign of the emperor Gozukaku...
The publication of Michinaga's poetry completes that of his daily notes (previous volumes Nr 23, 24, 26 in the same series). The most significant individual of his period is thus brought nearer to the modern...
This is the translation of one the Nikki (daily notes taken by dignitaries for the instruction of their descendants)...