{"product_id":"cultural-imprints-war-and-memory-in-the-samurai-age-9781501761621","title":"Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCultural Imprints\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003edraws on literary works, artifacts, performing arts, and documents that were created by or about the samurai to examine individual \"imprints,\" traces holding specifically grounded historical meanings that persist through time.\u003c\/b\u003e The contributors to this interdisciplinary volume assess those imprints for what they can suggest about how thinkers, writers, artists, performers, and samurai themselves viewed warfare and its lingering impact at various points during the \"samurai age,\" the long period from the establishment of the first shogunate in the twelfth century through the fall of the Tokugawa in 1868. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe range of methodologies and materials discussed in \u003ci\u003eCultural Imprints\u003c\/i\u003e challenges a uniform notion of warrior activity and sensibilities, breaking down an ahistorical, monolithic image of the samurai that developed late in the samurai age and that persists today. Highlighting the memory of warfare and its centrality in the cultural realm, \u003ci\u003eCultural Imprints\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the warrior's far-reaching, enduring, and varied cultural influence across centuries of Japanese history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: Monica Bethe, William Fleming, Andrew Goble, Thomas Hare, Luke Roberts, Marimi Tateno, Alison Tokita, Elizabeth Oyler, Katherine Saltzman-Li\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Oyler is Associate Professor of Japanese at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eSwords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKatherine Saltzman-Li is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Theatre at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eCreating Kabuki Plays\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell East Asia Series","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50381212287250,"sku":"9781501761621","price":63.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_54908115-989d-4145-a216-c6ec89dc7074.jpg?v=1728695066","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cultural-imprints-war-and-memory-in-the-samurai-age-9781501761621","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}