Courtly Visions

Courtly Visions: The Ise Stories and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation traces--through the visual and literary record--the reception and use of the tenth-century literary romance through the seventeenth century. Ise monogatari (The Ise Stories) takes shape in a salon of politically disenfranchised courtiers, then transforms later in the Heian period (794-1185) into a key subtext for autobiographical writings by female aristocrats. In the twelfth century it is turned into an esoteric... Voir plus