Format:
1 Online-Ressource (449 pages)
ISBN:
9780813345611
Content:
A comprehensive survey of premodern Japanese history, with original essays by leading authorities on major themes and issues from prehistory to the nineteenth century
Content:
Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Map: The Provinces of Premodern Japan -- Preface -- Part I. Landmarks, Eras, and Appellation in Japanese History -- 1 Japan's Natural Setting -- 2 Sorting the Past -- 3 Defining "Ancient" and "Classical" -- 4 Defining "Medieval" -- 5 Defining "Early Modern" -- Part II. Immigrants, Chieftains, and Kings in Ancient Times -- 6 Origins of the Japanese People -- 7 What Used to Be Called Shinto: The Question of Japan's Indigenous Religion -- 8 The Emergence of Political Rulership and the State in Early Japan -- 9 Early Japan and the Continent -- 10 Centralization and State Formation in Sixth- and Seventh-Century Japan -- Part III. Court, Capital, and Countryside in the Classical Age -- 11 Emporer, Aristocracy, and the Ritsuryō State: Court Politics in Nara -- 12 Oligarchy, Shared Rulership, and Power Blocs -- 13 Aristocratic Buddhism -- 14 The Canons of Courtly Taste -- 15 The Provinces and teh Public Economy -- 16 The Shōen System -- 17 The Dawn of the Samurai -- 18 The Kamakura Shogunate and the Beginnings of Warrior Power -- Part IV. Demesne, Dominion, and Diffusion in the Medieval Age -- 19 Kamakura and the Challenges of Goernance -- 20 Go-Daigō, Takauji, and the Muromachi Shogunate -- 21 Medieval Religion -- 22 Warriors, Warlords, and Domains -- 23 Medieval Warfare -- 24 Medieval Arts and Aesthetics -- 25 Gender Relations in the Age of Violence -- 26 The Rise of the Peasantry -- 27 The Medieval Economy -- 28 Diplomacy, Piracy, and the Space Between: Japan and East Asian in the Medieval Period -- Part V. Bureaucrats, Burghers, and Bailiwicks in the Early Modern Age -- 29 The Sixteenth-Century Reuinification -- 30 The Political Order -- 31 A Whole New World (Order): Early Modern Japanese Foreign Relations, 1550-1850 -- 32 The New Warriors: Samurai in Early Modern Japan -- 33 Urbanization, Trade, and Merchants
Content:
34 Ukiyo asobi: Urban Arts and Entertainments in Early Modern Japan -- 35 Religion in Early Modern Japan -- 36 Peace Divided: Agrarian Developments in Tokugawa Japan -- 37 Family, Gender, and Sex in Early Modern Japan -- 38 Thought, Education, and Popular Literacies in Early Modern Japan -- Bibliography -- About the Authors -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813344836
Additional Edition:
Print version Friday, Karl F Japan Emerging : Premodern History to 1850 Boulder : Westview Press,c2012 ISBN 9780813344836
Language:
English
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