Land, power, and the sacred : the estate system in medieval Japan /

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 re...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Goodwin, Janet R. (Editor), Piggott, Joan R. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2018]
Subjects:
To 1600
Manors > Japan > History > To 1500.
Land tenure > Japan > History > To 1500.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Land tenure
Manors
Japan > History > To 1600.
Japon > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1600.
Japan
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Estates: their history and historiography / Piggott, Joan R.
  • Medieval Japan's commercial economy and the estate system / Eiji, Sakurai
  • Ōbe Estate in the archaeological record / Takeshi, Nishida
  • Tōdaiji's estates in its documentary record: perspectives on Ōbe Estate / Motoo, Endō
  • 5. Hine Estate in Izumi Province: archaeology, landscape reconstruction, and village structures / Kōji, Hirota
  • 6. Agricultural expansion and irrigation in the early Medieval Age / Shigemitsu, Kimura
  • Loggers and cultivators of Nabari: Tōdaiji's Kuroda Estate in Heian Times / Piggott, Joan R.
  • 8. Hijiri and temple monks: contrasting styles of estate management / Makoto, Nagamura
  • Beyond the secular: villages, estates, and the ideology behind Chōgen's land reclamation projects / Kyōhei, Ōyama
  • Claiming the land: Chōgen and the development of Ōbe Estate / Goodwin, Janet R.
  • The Jōdoji Amida triad: how its iconography advanced Chōgen's mission / Kainuma, Yoshiko
  • Nyoin power, estates, and the Taira influence: trading networks within and beyond the archipelago / Kawai, Sachiko
  • Networks of wealth and influence: spatial power and estate strategy of the Saionji Family in early medieval Japan / Kamei-Dyche, Rieko
  • As estates faded: late medieval maritime shipping in the Seto Inland Sea / Damian, Michelle
  • Bad neighbors and monastic influence: border disputes in medieval Kii / Garrett, Philip
  • 16. The Akutō on Ōbe Estate: lawsuits, evidence, and participation in the late Kamakura legal system / Sherer, Dan
  • Warriors and estates in Muromachi-Period Harima / Taizō, Noda
  • Teaching Japanese estates: old challenges and new opportunities / Segal, Ethan

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