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This examination of death rituals in early Japan finds in the practice of double burial a key to understanding the Taika Era (645-710 A.D.). Drawing on narratives and poems from the earliest Japanese texts—the Kojiki, the Nihonshoki, and the Man’yoshu, an anthology of poetry—it argues that double burial was the center of a manipulation of myth and ritual for specific ideological and factional purposes. 鈥淭his volume has significantly raised the standard of scholarship on early Japanese and Man’yoshu studies.鈥�—Joseph Kitagawa 鈥淪o convincing is the historical and religious thought displayed here, it is impossible to imagine how anyone can ever again read these documents in the old way.鈥�—Alan L. Miller, The Journal of Religion 鈥淎 central resource for historians of early Japan.鈥�—David L. Barnhill, History of Religions