Land, Power, and the Sacred : : The Estate System in Medieval Japan /

Land, Power, and the Sacred : : The Estate System in Medieval Japan / / ed. by Joan R. Piggott, Janet R. Goodwin.

Landed estates (shōen) produced much of the material wealth supporting all levels of late classical and medieval Japanese society. During the tenth through sixteenth centuries, estates served as sites of de facto government, trade network nodes, developing agricultural technology, and centers of rel...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Buhrman, Kristina.
Damian, Michelle M.
Eason, David.
Eiji, Sakurai.
Garrett, Philip.
Goodwin, Janet R.
Kainuma, Yoshiko.
Kamei-Dyche, Rieko.
Kawai, Sachiko.
Kyōhei, Ōyama.
Kōji, Hirota.
Makoto, Nagamura.
Motoo, Endō.
Piggott, Joan R.
Segal, Ethan.
Sherer, Dan.
Shigemitsu, Kimura.
Taizō, Noda.
Takeshi, Nishida.
MitwirkendeR:
Damian, Michelle,
Eiji, Sakurai,
Garrett, Philip,
Goodwin, Janet R.,
Kainuma, Yoshiko,
Kamei-Dyche, Rieko,
Kawai, Sachiko,
Kyōhei, Ōyama,
Kōji, Hirota,
Makoto, Nagamura,
Motoo, Endō,
Piggott, Joan R.,
Segal, Ethan,
Sherer, Dan,
Shigemitsu, Kimura,
Taizō, Noda,
Takeshi, Nishida,
HerausgeberIn:
Goodwin, Janet R.,
Piggott, Joan R.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (586 p.) :; 62 illustrations, 29 in color
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures, Plates, and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Periods of Premodern Japanese History
  • Premodern Provinces and Modern Prefectures
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Big Picture
  • 1. Estates: Their History and Historiography
  • 2. Medieval Japan's Commercial Economy and the Estate System
  • Part II. How Do We Know about Estates?
  • 3. Ōbe Estate in the Archaeological Record
  • 4. Tōdaiji's Estates in Its Documentary Record: Perspectives on Ōbe Estate
  • 5. Hine Estate in Izumi Province: Archaeology, Landscape Reconstruction, and Village Structures
  • Part III. Making the Land Productive
  • 6. Agricultural Expansion and Irrigation in the Early Medieval Age
  • 7. Loggers and Cultivators of Nabari: Tōdaiji's Kuroda Estate in Heian Times
  • Part IV: Secular and Sacred
  • 8. Hijiri and Temple Monks: Contrasting Styles of Estate Management
  • 9. Beyond the Secular: Villages, Estates, and the Ideology behind Chōgen's Land Reclamation Projects
  • 10. Claiming the Land: Chōgen and the Development of Ōbe Estate
  • 11. The Jōdoji Amida Triad: How Its Iconography Advanced Chōgen's Mission
  • Part V: Power, Space, and Trade
  • 12 Nyoin Power, Estates, and the Taira Influence: Trading Networks within and beyond the Archipelago
  • 13. Networks of Wealth and Influence: Spatial Power and Estate Strategy of the Saionji Family in Early Medieval Japan
  • 14. As Estates Faded: Late Medieval Maritime Shipping in the Seto Inland Sea
  • Part VI: Power: Challenges and Conflicts
  • 15. Bad Neighbors and Monastic Influence: Border Disputes in Medieval Kii
  • 16. The Akutō on Ōbe Estate: Lawsuits, Evidence, and Participation in the Late Kamakura Legal System
  • 17. Warriors and Estates in Muromachi-Period Harima
  • Part VII: Getting the Word Out
  • 18. Teaching Japanese Estates: Old Challenges and New Opportunities
  • Some Afterthoughts
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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