books.google.co.jp - Imperial Politics and Symbolics is an ambitious and ground-breaking study that offers a new understanding of a formative stage in the development of the Japanese state. The late seventh and eighth centuries were a time of momentous change in Japan, much of it brought about by the short-lived Tenmu dynasty....http://books.google.co.jp/books/about/Imperial_Politics_and_Symbolics_in_Ancie.html?hl=ja&id=8fzx6eRzf-AC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareImperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan