Imperial Restoration in Medieval Japan / H. Paul Varley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Varley, H. Paul, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1971]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Examines the Kemmu Restoration within the context of transition from rule by courtiers to rule by warriors in the early medieval age, and with the 14th century dynastic schism as a topic of Japanese historiography.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

Introduction

I. Court and Military in the Early Kamakura Period

II. Decline of the Kamakura Shogunate and Dispute over Imperial Succession

III. The Kemmu Restoration, 1333-1336

IV. Kitabatake Chikafusa and the Cause of the Southern Court

V. Changing Views of the Past

VI. History Revised

Concluding Remarks

Appendix 1. Imperial Chronology to 1392

Appendix 2. Chikafusa's Imperial Chronology

Appendix 3. The Japanese Imperial Regalia

Appendix 4. Imperial Restoration

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88415-X

OCLC:

1100458867