Product Description: This is the first comprehensive study of the sources and nature of classical Japanese kingship and state formation. To draw new insights from the rich body of extant documents and artifacts from early Japan, the author employs the analytical tools of recent Western historiography and anthropology, constructing an “archeology of kingship” that begins by exposing the roots of Japanese monarchy in third-century chieftaincy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A seminal monograph.