Contents

pp.：  7 – 10

Acknowledgments

pp.：  11 – 14

List of Figures

pp.：  15 – 16

Conventions

pp.：  17 – 18

Abbreviations

pp.：  19 – 20

Introduction

pp.：  21 – 28

Chronology of Major Events in the Nihon Shoki and Shoku Nihongi Narratives

pp.：  29 – 32

Part One The Literary Representation of Empire

pp.：  33 – 34

1 Yamato as Empire in the Sinoscript Sphere

pp.：  35 – 76

The Sinic Imperial Imagination

pp.：  38 – 41

The Eastern Barbarians

pp.：  42 – 54

Yamato, the Three Han, and the Sui

pp.：  55 – 64

Great Tang and Great Yamato

pp.：  65 – 76

2 The National Imaginings of Early Japan

pp.：  77 – 104

The Shape of the State

pp.：  79 – 86

The Imperial Nation

pp.：  87 – 89

Cultural Nationalism after 1945

pp.：  90 – 92

Multicultural Yamato

pp.：  93 – 104

3 The Imperial Configuration of Nihon

pp.：  105 – 142

The Names of the Ruler and the Realm

pp.：  107 – 113

Capitals and Calendars

pp.：  114 – 121

The Performance of Empire

pp.：  122 – 126

The Texts of Empire

pp.：  127 – 142

4 Imperial Historiography and the Narrative Politics of the Jinshin Rebellion

pp.：  143 – 180

The Plot of the Jinshin Rebellion

pp.：  145 – 147

Imperial Historiography

pp.：  148 – 151

Tenmu and the Jinshin Rebellion in the Kojiki Preface

pp.：  152 – 155

Two Narratives of the Jinshin Rebellion

pp.：  156 – 165

The Third Narrative

pp.：  166 – 169

Historiographical Politics

pp.：  170 – 171

Prince Ōtsu and the Ōmi Court

pp.：  172 – 180

5 Poetry Anthology as Imperial History

pp.：  181 – 220

The Man’yōshū as National Anthology

pp.：  182 – 185

The Compilation and Structure of the Man’yōshū

pp.：  186 – 191

The Man’yōshū as Imperial History

pp.：  192 – 199

Anthological Politics

pp.：  200 – 214

Imperial Chronology

pp.：  215 – 220

Part Two Imperial Poetry and the Politics of the First Person

pp.：  221 – 222

6 The Voice of All under Heaven

pp.：  223 – 262

Speech and Empire

pp.：  226 – 234

Uta as First-Person Discourse

pp.：  235 – 242

Individual and Collective Voice

pp.：  243 – 248

Voices of Authority and Subjection

pp.：  249 – 262

7 Tenmu and the Yoshino Cult

pp.：  263 – 294

Tenmu’s Yoshino Poems

pp.：  265 – 268

The Yoshino Praise Poems

pp.：  269 – 272

The Politics of First-Person Reading

pp.：  273 – 280

The Voice of Universal Praise

pp.：  281 – 286

Yoshino and Imperial Succession after Tenmu and Jitō

pp.：  287 – 294

8 The Tenmu Myth of Heavenly Descent

pp.：  295 – 340

Prince Kusakabe’s Portrayal in the Nihon shoki

pp.：  297 – 299

The Lament for the Prince Peer of the Sun

pp.：  300 – 316

Prince Takechi’s Portrayal in the Nihon shoki

pp.：  317 – 318

The Memory of the Jinshin War

pp.：  319 – 332

Mourning for Takechi

pp.：  333 – 338

The Tenmu Myth

pp.：  339 – 340

9 The Memory of the Ōmi Capital

pp.：  341 – 372

Ōmi and Tenchi in the Nihon shoki

pp.：  342 – 343

The Ōmi Ōtsu Palace Sections of the Man’yōshū

pp.：  344 – 353

Hitomaro’s Poems on the Ruined Ōmi Capital

pp.：  354 – 358

The Ōmi Capital as the Past

pp.：  359 – 372

10 The Fujiwara Sovereign

pp.：  373 – 422

Ise and the Sun Prince

pp.：  374 – 387

Prince Karu

pp.：  388 – 391

The Poem on the Aki Fields

pp.：  392 – 400

The Intimate Voice

pp.：  401 – 405

Divine Lords

pp.：  406 – 410

The Fujiwara Palace Sovereign

pp.：  411 – 422

Conclusion

pp.：  423 – 436

Bibliography

pp.：  437 – 454

Index

pp.：  455 – 463