12th century? When the imperium was in the pocket of whoever headed the Fujiwaras, who would marry off the current boy emperor off to his daughter and forced him to retire as soon as an heir was produced? The century of the Genpei wars that resulted in the Kamakura shogunate? Er ...
I've been wondering if there was any connection to the habit of retired emperors taking Buddhist vows with the priestly and ritual functions of the imperial person, which were stronger in the times before retirement became the norm, but I've never managed to make the chronology fit. I'd be interested in sources that discuss this.
"a site of accumulated and overdetermined, a place at once real and imaginary"
Missing noun? Or is an "accumulated" (as a noun) a technical term?
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Date: 2011-01-25 15:20 (UTC)I've been wondering if there was any connection to the habit of retired emperors taking Buddhist vows with the priestly and ritual functions of the imperial person, which were stronger in the times before retirement became the norm, but I've never managed to make the chronology fit. I'd be interested in sources that discuss this.
"a site of accumulated and overdetermined, a place at once real and imaginary"
Missing noun? Or is an "accumulated" (as a noun) a technical term?
---L.