Japan Emerging by Friday, Karl F. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication 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

Part III: COURT, CAPITAL, AND COUNTRYSIDE IN THE CLASSICAL AGE

11 Emperor, 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 the Public Economy, 700–1100 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 Governance 20 Go-Daigō, Takauji, and the Muromachi Shogunate 21 Medieval Religion 22 Warriors, Warlords 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 Asia in the Medieval Period

Part V: BUREAUCRATS, BURGHERS, AND BAILIWICKS IN THE EARLY MODERN AGE

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