Japan in the Muromachi Age / ed. by John W. Hall, Toyoda Takeshi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dixon Morris, V., Contributor.

Elison, George, Contributor.

Grossberg, Kenneth A., Contributor.

Hall, John W., Contributor.

Hall, John W., Editor.

Hiroshi, Sugiyama, Contributor.

Keene, Donald, Contributor.

Keiji, Nagahara, Contributor.

Kiley, Cornelius J., Contributor.

Konen, Kuwayama, Contributor.

Masaharu, Kawai, Contributor.

Mitsuru, Miyagawa, Contributor.

Novograd, Paul, Contributor.

Rosenfield, John M., Contributor.

Ruch, Barbara, Contributor.

Sakai, Robert, Contributor.

Shin’ichi, Sato, Contributor.

Takeo, Tanaka, Contributor.

Takeshi, Toyoda, Contributor.

Takeshi, Toyoda, Editor.

Tamamura, Kozo, Contributor.

Tatsusaburo, Hayashiya, Contributor.

Teiji, Ito, Contributor.

Toshihide, Akamatsu, Contributor.

Varley, H. Paul, Contributor.

Weinstein, Stanley, Contributor.

Yampolsky, Philip, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Age.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTRIBUTORS AND COLLABORATORS

Editorial Assistants

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction: The Muromachi Age in Japanese History

PART ONE. Time and Place

1. Muromachi Japan: A Note on Periodization

2. Kyoto in the Muromachi Age

PART TWO. Political Organization

3. The Muromachi Power Structure

4. The Ashikaga Shogun and the Muromachi Bakufu Administration

5. The Bugyönin System: A Closer Look

6. Shogun and Shugo: The Provincial Aspects of Muromachi Politics

PART THREE. Lordship arid Village

Introduction

7. From Shöen to Chigyö: Proprietary Lordship and the Structure of Local Power

8. Village Communities and Daimyo Power

PART FOUR. Commercial Economy and Social Change

9. The Growth of Commerce and the Trades

10. Sakai: From Shoen to Port City

11. Japan's Relations with Overseas Countries

PART FIVE. Cultural Life

12. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and the World of Kitayama: Social Change and Shogunal Patronage in Early Muromachi Japan

13. The Unity of the Three Creeds: A Theme in Japanese Ink Painting of the Fifteenth Century

14. The Development of Shoin-Style Architecture

15. The Comic Tradition in Renga

16. Medieval Jongleurs and the Making of a National Literature

PART SIX. Religious Life

17. Muromachi Zen and the Gozan System

18. Rennyo and the Shinshu Revival

Glossary

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)

ISBN:

0-520-32553-2