Medieval Japan: Essays in Institutional HistoryA collection of essays tackles a neglected field of Japan's history. |
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Contents
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| 39 | |
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The Early Development of the Shõen | 91 |
Estate and Property in the Late Heian Period | 109 |
The Emergence of the Kamakura Bakufu | 127 |
The Case | 157 |
The Economic and Political Effects of the Mongol Wars | 184 |
The Early Muromachi Bakufu in Kyoto | 201 |
The Muromachi Shugo and Hanzei | 210 |
Epilogue | 248 |
Index | 261 |
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Page 186 - Enclosed is the patent signifying the donation of the stewardship of Muratsuno Beppu in the province of Hyuga. We had offered a stewardship in the first year of Kenji [1275] for the purpose of repulsing enemies, as a result of which all enemy ships were wrecked or sunk in the fourth year of Koan [1281].
Page 112 - estate'. This is an extension of the terms 'corporation' and 'estate' as they are commonly used in law, but I think this extension is justifiable, and hope that at any rate it will be admitted for the purposes of the present exposition. By an estate is here meant a collection of rights (whether over persons or things) with the implied duties, the unity of which is constituted either by the fact that they are the rights of a single person and can be transmitted, as a whole, or in division, to some...
Page 112 - ... Kinship, pp. 53-54; Baker, Chinese Family and Kinship, pp. 107II. 71. Freeman, "On the Concept of the Kindred," pp. 261, 265. 72. See also Northcote W. Thomas, Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia (New York: Humanities Press, 1966), pp. 3-4. 73. Alfred R. Radcliffe-Brown, "Patrilinea! and Matrilineal Succession," in Structure and Function in Primitive Society (New York: Free Press, 1965), pp. 32-48. 74. Shoumatoff, The Mountain of Names, p. 31; Nancy Jay, Throughout Your Generations...
Page 186 - Now, because it is rumored that enemies may come to attack us again, we would like to make a donation similar to the one given before. We request that you say your prayers with the utmost sincerity. On order of the Shogun, Governor of Suruga Province (Hojo Naritoki) Governor of Sagami Province (Hojo Tokimune) This simple and crude faith of...
Page 98 - Todaiji in Kuwabara required a large investment of both capital and labor. It seems clear that the temple supplied the necessary equipment for these projects. The source of labor for both these undertakings and the later cultivation of reclaimed fields is a matter of some controversy. Since the documents are not explicit concerning the status of the workers on the shoen, there is room for a wide range of interpretation.
Page 100 - Because the former had close connections with the central government. Kishi also suggests that Kuwabara was managed as if the fields were publicly administered land rather than temple land. His argument, though based on extensive documentation, is highly circumstantial, but it should not be totally disregarded. The Todaiji, as the greatest temple in the land, was a semi-governmental institution and as such evidenced no clear distinction between public and private administrative authority.
Page 107 - The shoen's flexibility extended to the local level as well. It was able to absorb changes in the types of cultivator's tenure and changes in administration by the shoke without altering the amount of income due the central proprietor.
Page 95 - For the most part, the lands granted for reclamation were located within a single county, and, if several parcels were involved, they were in fair proximity to one another. This did not mean that fields brought into production were necessarily contiguous or in one enclosed area similar to a Western farm. Clusters of cultivated fields could be separated by unreclaimed tracts, since the order of reclamation...
Page 19 - The constantly changing pattern of power-holding within the court group can be traced architecturally, therefore, by following the rise and fall of individual families as their residences flourished or decayed and by identifying the shifting locus of prime influence as it moved from one residential headquarters to another.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Medieval Japan: Essays in Institutional History |
| Authors | John Whitney Hall, Jeffrey P. Mass |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, reissue |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0804715114, 9780804715119 |
| Length | 269 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Asia / Japan History / Medieval |
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