The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan by Ivan Morris

Author:Ivan Morris [Morris, Ivan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Japanese, Asia, Literary Criticism, Asian, Japan, History
ISBN: 9780345803917
Google: IzPatf13rT8C
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 1978-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

The regular Yearly Observances originated in many different ways. Some had been taken over directly from the Chinese Court, though by Murasaki’s time they had mostly undergone considerable adaptation. Others, as we have seen, had their source in folk festivals or local celebrations, but had been absorbed into the court calendar; conversely, many observances that were originally carried out in the Imperial Palace spread to private households, and even came to be practised by commoners and provincials. Still others were religious festivals—Buddhist, Shintō, and Confucianist.

Since they cumulatively played such an important part in Heian life, it may be well to give some examples from the rich array of observances that were carried out in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Rather than divide them into categories (religious and secular, foreign and indigenous, folk and aristocratic), I shall list them in chronological order, which would have seemed more natural in Murasaki’s time.

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