Author: Mark HudsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781802701838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book looks afresh at a key stage in Japan's global transformation from medieval to early modern.
Europe and the End of Medieval Japan
Author: Mark HudsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781802701838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book looks afresh at a key stage in Japan's global transformation from medieval to early modern.
Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan
Author: William E. DealPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195331265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
This book is an introduction the Japanese history, culture, and society from 1185 - the beginning of the Kamakura period - through the end of the Edo period in 1868.
Tanegashima - The Arrival of Europe in Japan
Author: Olof G. LidinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135788707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The year 1543 marked the beginning of a new global consciousness in Japan with the arrival of shipwrecked Portuguese merchants on Tanegashima Island in southern Japan. Other Portuguese soon followed and Japan became aware of a world beyond India. After the merchants came the first missionary Francis Xavier in 1549, beginning the Christian century in Japan. This is not a new story, but it is the first time that Japanese, Portuguese and other European accounts have been brought together and presented in English. Their arrival was recorded by the Japanese in Tanegashima kafu, the Teppoki and the Kunitomo teppoki, here translated and presented together with European reports. Includes maps, and Portuguese and Japanese illustrations.
War and State Building in Medieval Japan
Author: John A. FerejohnPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804774315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The nation state as we know it is a mere four or five hundred years old. Remarkably, a central government with vast territorial control emerged in Japan at around the same time as it did in Europe, through the process of mobilizing fiscal resources and manpower for bloody wars between the 16th and 17th centuries. This book, which brings Japan's case into conversation with the history of state building in Europe, points to similar factors that were present in both places: population growth eroded clientelistic relationships between farmers and estate holders, creating conditions for intense competition over territory; and in the ensuing instability and violence, farmers were driven to make Hobbesian bargains of taxes in exchange for physical security.
The End of the Shoguns and the Birth of Modern Japan, 2nd Edition
Author: Mark E. CunninghamPublisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 146770377X
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
How did the end of the shoguns pave the way for modern Japan? Between the eighth and twelfth centuries, emperors ruled Japan. But powerful families gained the loyalty of the samurai - the emperors’ warriors. In 1185 one local lord took control as shogun, leader of the samurai armies. For the next seven hundred years, the emperors were ceremonial figures, and the shoguns ruled Japan, banning interaction with the Western world. In the nineteenth century, Westerners demanded that Japan open to trade under the threat of invasion. Japan’s shogunate realized it didn’t have the military technology to fight them. When the shogun government made concessions to the Westerners, Japanese lords were outraged and returned their support to the emperor. The shogunate crumbled. In 1868 Emperor Meiji became ruler of Japan. He opened Japan to modern technology, and his military advisers created a global fighting force. The end of the shoguns, which led to the birth of modern Japan, was one of the world’s pivotal moments.
Peace and Conflicts in Late Medieval Japan and Europe
Author: Hitomi SatoMedieval Japan
Author: John Whitney HallPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804715119
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A collection of essays tackles a neglected field of Japan's history.
The First European Description of Japan, 1585
Author: Luis Frois SJPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317917804
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
In 1585, at the height of Jesuit missionary activity in Japan, which was begun by Francis Xavier in 1549, Luis Frois, a long-time missionary in Japan, drafted the earliest systematic comparison of Western and Japanese cultures. This book constitutes the first critical English-language edition of the 1585 work, the original of which was discovered in the Royal Academy of History in Madrid after the Second World War. The book provides a translation of the text, which is not a continuous narrative, but rather more than 600 distichs or brief couplets on subjects such as gender, child rearing, religion, medicine, eating, horses, writing, ships and seafaring, architecture, and music and drama. In addition, the book includes a substantive introduction and other editorial material to explain the background and also to make comparisons with present-day Japanese life. Overall, the book represents an important primary source for understanding a particularly challenging period of history and its connection to contemporary Europe and Japan.
Japan: the Shaping of Daimyo Culture 1185-1868
Author: Yoshiaki ShimizuPublisher:
ISBN: 9780894691225
Category : Art, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Origins of Japan’s Medieval World
Author: Jeffrey P. MassPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804743792
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
This pioneering collection of 15 essays argues that Japan's medieval age began in the 14th century rather than the 12th, and marks the beginning of a fundamentally new debate about how Japan's lengthy classical period finally ended.