Four years in Izumi : village Japan in the early sixteenth century / Lee Butler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butler, Lee, 1958- Author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/15be13c7-5d89-da94-6ddf-bf8f2ca4b236 no. 108

Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Villages--Japan--History--16th century.

Villages.

Country life--Japan--History--16th century.

Country life.

Japan--Rural conditions--History--16th century.

Japan.

Physical Description:

xix, 304 pages ; 24 cm.

maps.

Other Title:

4 years in Izumi : village Japan in the early 16th century

Village Japan in the early 16th century

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor [ Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, 2026.

Summary:

Four Years in Izumi takes an in-depth and critical approach to understanding Japanese village life through analysis of the diary of KujoÌ⁴ Masamoto, the former chancellor of the imperial court who resided briefly in one of his provincial estates from 1501 to 1504. For a high ranking courtier to travel to the countryside and manage a family estate was unheard of during the era of Sengoku, the "country at war." The diary Masamoto kept offers a remarkably rich and vivid portrait of village Japan, which has seen no significant study in English-language scholarship. Through extensive examination of the diary, and close and critical reading of it and complementary sources, Lee Butler provides a window into the inner workings of late medieval village life that challenges typical portrayals of the period. In Four Years in Izumi, we see the complexity of relations between commoners and elites in action. We also see the ways in which an estate functioned in practice at the heart of the medieval economy and local social structure.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295) and index.

Other Format:

Online version Butler, Lee, 1958- Four years in Izumi

ISBN:

9780472078080

0472078089

9780472058082

0472058088

OCLC:

1574132952