Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan 9780824875466
Landed estates (shōen) produced much of the material wealth supporting all levels of late classical and medieval Japanes
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Table of contents :
Contents
List of Figures, Plates, and Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Periods of Premodern Japanese History
Premodern Provinces and Modern Prefectures
Introduction
Part I. The Big Picture
1. Estates: Their History and Historiography
2. Medieval Japan’s Commercial Economy and the Estate System
Part II. How Do We Know about Estates?
3. Ōbe Estate in the Archaeological Record
4. Tōdaiji’s Estates in Its Documentary Record: Perspectives on Ōbe Estate
5. Hine Estate in Izumi Province: Archaeology, Landscape Reconstruction, and Village Structures
Part III. Making the Land Productive
6. Agricultural Expansion and Irrigation in the Early Medieval Age
7. Loggers and Cultivators of Nabari: Tōdaiji’s Kuroda Estate in Heian Times
Part IV: Secular and Sacred
8. Hijiri and Temple Monks: Contrasting Styles of Estate Management
9. Beyond the Secular: Villages, Estates, and the Ideology behind Chōgen’s Land Reclamation Projects
10. Claiming the Land: Chōgen and the Development of Ōbe Estate
11. The Jōdoji Amida Triad: How Its Iconography Advanced Chōgen’s Mission
Part V: Power, Space, and Trade
12 Nyoin Power, Estates, and the Taira Influence: Trading Networks within and beyond the Archipelago
13. Networks of Wealth and Influence: Spatial Power and Estate Strategy of the Saionji Family in Early Medieval Japan
14. As Estates Faded: Late Medieval Maritime Shipping in the Seto Inland Sea
Part VI: Power: Challenges and Conflicts
15. Bad Neighbors and Monastic Influence: Border Disputes in Medieval Kii
16. The Akutō on Ōbe Estate: Lawsuits, Evidence, and Participation in the Late Kamakura Legal System
17. Warriors and Estates in Muromachi-Period Harima
Part VII: Getting the Word Out
18. Teaching Japanese Estates: Old Challenges and New Opportunities
Some Afterthoughts
Glossary
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Contents
List of Figures, Plates, and Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Periods of Premodern Japanese History
Premodern Provinces and Modern Prefectures
Introduction
Part I. The Big Picture
1. Estates: Their History and Historiography
2. Medieval Japan’s Commercial Economy and the Estate System
Part II. How Do We Know about Estates?
3. Ōbe Estate in the Archaeological Record
4. Tōdaiji’s Estates in Its Documentary Record: Perspectives on Ōbe Estate
5. Hine Estate in Izumi Province: Archaeology, Landscape Reconstruction, and Village Structures
Part III. Making the Land Productive
6. Agricultural Expansion and Irrigation in the Early Medieval Age
7. Loggers and Cultivators of Nabari: Tōdaiji’s Kuroda Estate in Heian Times
Part IV: Secular and Sacred
8. Hijiri and Temple Monks: Contrasting Styles of Estate Management
9. Beyond the Secular: Villages, Estates, and the Ideology behind Chōgen’s Land Reclamation Projects
10. Claiming the Land: Chōgen and the Development of Ōbe Estate
11. The Jōdoji Amida Triad: How Its Iconography Advanced Chōgen’s Mission
Part V: Power, Space, and Trade
12 Nyoin Power, Estates, and the Taira Influence: Trading Networks within and beyond the Archipelago
13. Networks of Wealth and Influence: Spatial Power and Estate Strategy of the Saionji Family in Early Medieval Japan
14. As Estates Faded: Late Medieval Maritime Shipping in the Seto Inland Sea
Part VI: Power: Challenges and Conflicts
15. Bad Neighbors and Monastic Influence: Border Disputes in Medieval Kii
16. The Akutō on Ōbe Estate: Lawsuits, Evidence, and Participation in the Late Kamakura Legal System
17. Warriors and Estates in Muromachi-Period Harima
Part VII: Getting the Word Out
18. Teaching Japanese Estates: Old Challenges and New Opportunities
Some Afterthoughts
Glossary
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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