Premodern Japan’s status, sex and power/Japan’s NIHONGI and KOJIKI: ‘Authentic’ Histories more of the Present than the Past.
please focus on the nature/ content of the two Japanese imperial myth-histories (NIHONGI and KOJIKI): the context of their writing ( early 8th Century); and their political function( for imperial line). Also, discuss the revealing about gender issues; the political influence that women still had then (emperors & court shamans, if the were not sovereigns themselves); the fact that goddesses remained prominent in the imperial pantheon and what this might mean then and now.
the reference list.