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The Origins of Japan's Medieval World - Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century (Hardcover, 1 New Ed)
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The Origins of Japan's Medieval World - Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century (Hardcover, 1 New Ed)
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This pioneering collection of fifteen essays proposes to change the
way we think about fourteenth-century Japan and what preceded and
followed it. Most notable is the search for Japan's medieval
beginnings, which are found not in the developments flowing from
the establishment of the first shogunate in the 1180's, but rather
in the shogunate's collapse 150 years later.
In this admittedly controversial interpretation, the Kamakura age
becomes the final episode in Japan's late classical period, with
the courtier and warrior regimes of that era together seeking to
maintain the traditional order. But under the leadership of Japan's
first truly "medieval men" (the emperor Go-Daigo and Ashikaga
Takauji), the old order was dramatically transformed. In the
editor's words, "the rules changed, new behavior was everywhere,
the past was only one of several competing influences. After the
better part of a millennium, the spell cast by courtiers was
finally broken."
Among the topics treated are the strange new partnerships within
the social hierarchy, the impact of sustained warfare on societal
values, the new subservience of women in the post-Kamakura
environment, the unprecedented emergence of warriors as the
moralists and spokesmen of a new age, and the appearance of a new,
more sharply partisan religious sectarianism.
In addition, we are shown the fragility of a history now dependent
on battlefield success, the assumption of control of imperial
poetic anthologies by warriors, the condition of the old and new
Buddhist establishments, the paradox of warrior flamboyance and
warrior stolidity, and the imposition of enduring village names.
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