Kenmu : Go-Daigo's revolution / Andrew Edmund Goble.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goble, Andrew Edmund.

Series:

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 169.

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 169

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Godaigo, Emperor of Japan, 1288-1339.

Godaigo.

Japan--History--Kenmu Restoration, 1333-1336.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 1996.

Other Title:

Go-Daigo's Revolution

Place of Publication:

Boston : Harvard University Asia Center, 1996.

Summary:

"The short-lived Kenmu regime (1333-1336) of Japanese Emperor Go-Daigo is often seen as an inevitably doomed, revanchist attempt to shore up the old aristocratic order. But far from resisting change, Andrew Edmund Goble here forcefully argues, the flamboyant Go-Daigo and his iconoclastic associates were among the competitors seeking to overcome the old order and renegotiate its structure and ethos. Their ultimate defeat did not automatically spell failure; rather, the revolutionary nature of their enterprise decisively moved Japan into its medieval age. By birth, education, and circumstances, Go-Daigo should have been a weak, fatalistic bit player. Instead this student of Chinese political theory was a bold actor with an unprecedented knowledge of the various regions of Japan, who forced situations to his own benefit and led a rebellion that overthrew the Kamakura bakufu. Kenmu: Go-Daigo's Revolution tells his extraordinary personal story vividly, reexamines original sources to discover the real nature of the Kenmu polity, and sets both within the broader backdrop of social, economic, and intellectual change at a dynamic moment in Japanese history.".

Contents:

Preliminary Material

The Rise of Go-Daigo

Moves and Setbacks, 1321-1324

Reworking the Environment, 1325-1331

The Fall of the Kamakura Bakufu, 1331-1333

Consolidation, 1333-1334

Transforming the Center

The Power of Geography

Revolution Redirected, 1335-

Abbreviations Used in the Notes

Notes

List of Works Cited

Glossary-Index

Harvard East Asian Monographs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references(p. 343-369) and index.

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ISBN:

9781684173105

1684173108

OCLC:

606011047

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684173105 DOI