Refuge in the Past during the Final Age
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rator who promises to reveal something about the connections between
past and present.
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Nevertheless, even though Tametsune has mobilized two of
The Great
Mirror
’s defining tropes—the importance of location and the commit-
ment to narrating historical trajectories in terms of cause and effect—the
past in his presentation has very diff erent contours than Yotsugi’s rela-
tively uncomplicated celebration of Michinaga’s success as the fruition
of his remarkable karma. While
The New Mirror
features a “packaging”
that is similar to that of
The Great Mirror
, its contents reveal a diff erent,
more complex agenda.
Ordering the Past to a New Purpose:
The New Mirror
and Recuperating the Past
Although
The New Mirror
follows in the footsteps of
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