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Medieval Japan

Series The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 3

Edited by Kozo Yamamura

Publication Date 1990

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521223546

Hardback ISBN-10
0521223547

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521223546

Overview

This third volume of the Cambridge History of Japan is devoted to the three and a half centuries spanning the final decades of the twelfth century when the Kamakura bakufu was founded to the mid-sixteenth century when civil wars raged following the demise of the Muromachi bakufu. Volume 3 contains 13 specially commissioned essays written by leading Japanese and American scholars that survey the historical events and developments in medieval Japan's polity, economy, society and culture, as well as its relations with its Asian neighbours. The essays reflect the most recent scholarly research on the history of this period. The volume creates a rich tapestry of the events that took place during these colourful centuries, when the warrior class ruled Japan, institutions underwent fundamental transformations, the economy grew steadily, and Japanese culture and society evolved with surprising vitality to leave legacies that still characterize and affect contemporary Japan. A meticulously prepared glossary of terms and a chronological table of major historical events and developments are included. As with other volumes in The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 3 was carefully prepared so as to be accessible to specialists and students as well as to general readers wishing to increase their understanding of the period. This is the most extensive treatment available on medieval Japan, and it will serve as an indispensible tool and authoritative guide for all interested in Japan's medieval age.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see
Medieval Japan in the Cambridge University Press online
catalogue.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction
by
Kozo Yamamura

The Kamakura bakufu
by
Jeffrey P. Mass

Medieval shōen
by
Ōyama Kyōhei

The decline of the Kamakura bakufu
by
Ishii Susumu

The Muromachi bakufu
by
John Whitney Hall

Muromachi local government: shugo and kokujin
by
Imatani Akira

The decline of the shōen system
by
Nagahara Keiji

The medieval peasant
by
Nagahara Keiji

The growth of commerce in medieval Japan
by
Kozo Yamamura

Japan and East Asia
by
Kawazoe Shōji

Cultural life in medieval Japan
by
Paul Varley

The other side of culture in medieval Japan
by
Barbara Ruch

Buddhism in the Kamakura period
by
Ōsumi Kazuo

Zen and the gozan
by
Martin Collcutt

Works cited

Glossary of selected terms

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