Government by Mourning : Death and Political Integration in Japan, 1603-1912 /

"Hirai reveals how the decrees on mourning played an important integrative part in the Tokugawa period through not only its comprehensive implementation, especially among major political figures, but also its codification of the religious beliefs and customs that the Japanese people had cherish...

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Main Author: Hirai, Atsuko
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center and distributed by Harvard University Press, [2014].
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 347
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