Akutō and Rural Conflict in Medieval Japan /

Akutō and Rural Conflict in Medieval Japan / / Morten Oxenboell.

This volume offers the first in-depth analysis in English of an understudied phenomenon in medieval Japanese history: the so-called akutō (literally, "evil bands"). Employing chronicles, laws, and legal documents from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, as well as recent Japanese scho...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2018
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Oxenboell, Morten,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE. Conflict Strategies in the Medieval Estate: From Evasion to Confrontation
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Unworthy
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Power of Labeling
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Friends or Foes: Crime and Violence on the Monastic Estates
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Estate Organization and Collective Violence
  • CHAPTER SIX. The Irregulars
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Where Did All the Akutō Go?
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A: Timeline of the Kuroda-no-shō Akutō
  • Appendix B: Timeline of Terada Hōnen in Yano-no-shō
  • Appendix C: Timeline of Minamoto Tametoki in Arakawa-no-shō
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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