| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 702 pages) : maps |
| Contents |
Introduction / Kozo Yamamura -- The Kamakura bakufu / Jeffrey P. Mass -- Medieval shōen / Ōyama Kyōhei and Martin Collcutt -- The decline of the Kamakura bakufu / Ishii Susumu -- The Muromachi bakufu / John Whitney Hall -- Muromachi local government: shugo and kokujin / Imatani Akira and Suzanne Gay -- The decline of the shōen system / Nagahara Keiji and Michael P. Birt -- The medieval peasant / Nagahara Keiji and Suzanne Gay -- The growth of commerce in medieval Japan / Kozo Yamamura -- Japan and East Asia / Kawazoe Shōji and G. Cameron Hurst III -- CULTURAL LIFE IN MEDIEVAL JAPAN / H. Paul Varley -- The other side of culture in medieval Japan / Barbara Ruch -- Buddhism in the Kamakura period / Ōsumi Kazuo and Jamest C. Dobbinst -- Zen and the gozan / Martin Collcutt |
| Summary |
"This third volume in The Cambridge History of Japan is devoted to the three and a half centuries spanning the final decades of the twelfth century when the Kamakura bakufu was founded, to the mid-sixteenth century when civil wars raged following the effective demise of the Muromachi bakufu. Volume 3 contains thirteen specially commissioned essays written by leading Japanese and American scholars that survey the historical events and developments in medieval Japan's polity, economy, society, and culture, as well as its relations with its Asian neighbors. The essays reflect the most recent scholarly research on the history of this period. The volume creates a rich tapestry of the events that took place during these colorful centuries, when the warrior class ruled Japan, institutions underwent fundamental transformations, the economy grew steadily, and Japanese culture and society evolved with surprising vitality to leave legacies that still characterize and affect contemporary Japan." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| SUBJECT |
Japan -- History -- 1185-1600. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069455
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| Subject |
Japan.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Yamamura, Kōzō
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| ISBN |
9781139055079 |
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1139055070 |
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