Nijo v. Reizei: Land rights, litigation, and literary authority in medieval Japan
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The origin, development and the resolution of legal aspects in the Nijo-Reizei dispute concerning land rights and poetic documents of the courtier and poet Fujiwara no Tameie (1198-1275) are analyzed. It illustrates the methods in which documentary evidence was presented by litigants and interpreted by the legal officials of the Kamakura bakufu in medieval Japan, which settled the matter in 1313 after litigants had died, and misguided verdicts were passed based on faulty evidence.
Publication Name: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0073-0548
Year: 2006
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"Topic poetry is all ours": poetic composition on Chinese lines in early Heian Japan
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The unarticulated nature of Chinese or Japanese poetry that makes it difficult to conceive and analysis of Japanese genre of Heian topic poetry are presented.
Publication Name: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0073-0548
Year: 2007
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