A Failure of Vision: Diachronic Failure and the Rhetoric of Rupture in the Taiheiki

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dc.contributor.authorSather, Jeremy A.en
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-20T14:55:36Zen
dc.date.available2023-01-20T14:55:36Zen
dc.date.issued2022-04en
dc.date.updated2023-01-19T21:01:41Zen
dc.description.abstractJapan reached an epistemological crossroad during the fourteenth century. The Wars of the Northern and Southern Courts (1336-1392) were fought between two power enters with vastly different visions for the future: The Southern Court aimed to restore the sacerdotal monarchy of the past and its epistemic framework, what this article calls the ōbō-buppō episteme; the Ashikaga-led Northern Court, conversely, represented a shift toward the secular and the sublimation of royal authority heralding the advent of a new episteme, or the jitsuri episteme. The war chronicle Taiheiki is in large part responsible for our understanding of the conflict far beyond its official end in 1392. This paper argues that Taiheiki is unique among war chronicles in concluding without the restoration of royal authority or the ōbō-buppō episteme, and this failure made it a signifier of epistemic change as well as a source of inspiration for samurai of subsequent generations who wished to affect such change themselves.en
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dc.format.extentPages 43-74en
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.5195/jll.2021.225en
dc.identifier.eissn2326-4586en
dc.identifier.issn1536-7827en
dc.identifier.issue1en
dc.identifier.orcidSather, Jeremy [0000-0003-2212-2087]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/113304en
dc.identifier.volume56en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburghen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.titleA Failure of Vision: Diachronic Failure and the Rhetoric of Rupture in the <i>Taiheiki</i>en
dc.title.serialJapanese Language and Literatureen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
dc.type.otherArticleen
dcterms.dateAccepted2021-01-01en
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