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Karl Friday (Editor)

March 2012
Trade Paperback · 496 Pages
$49.00 U.S. · $56.50 CAN · £32.99 U.K.
ISBN 9780813344836

Description

Japan Emerging provides a comprehensive survey of Japan from prehistory to the nineteenth century. Incorporating the latest scholarship and methodology, leading authorities writing specifically for this volume outline and explore the main developments in Japanese life through ancient, classical, medieval, and early modern periods. Instead of relying solely on lists of dates and prominent names, the authors focus on why and how Japanese political, social, economic, and intellectual life evolved. Each part is developed around a set of guiding questions and issues, and begins with a timeline to help orient readers and enhance continuity. Engaging, thorough, and accessible, this is an essential text for all students and scholars of Japanese history.

About the Author

Karl F. Friday is the director of the IES Abroad Tokyo Center. His books include Samurai, Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan and The First Samurai: The Life and Legend of the Warrior Rebel Taira Masakado.

Table of Contents

Part I
Landmarks, Eras, and Appellation in Japanese History
1. Japan’s Natural Setting, Gina L. Barnes
2. Sorting the Past, Karl F. Friday
3. Defining “Ancient” and “Classical,” Joan R. Piggott
4. Defining “Medieval,” Andrew Edmund Goble
5.Defining “Early Modern,” Mary Elizabeth Berry

Part II
Immigrants, Chieftains, and Kings in Ancient Times
Timeline
6. Origins of the Japanese People, C. Melvin Aikens
7. What Used to Be Called Shinto: The Question of Japan’s Indigenous Religion, Mark Teeuwen
8. The Emergence of Political Rulership and the State in Early Japan, Gina L. Barnes
9. Early Japan and the Continent, Bruce L. Batten
10. Centralization and State Formation in Sixth- and Seventh-Century Japan, Douglas Fuqua

Part III
Court, Capital, and Countryside in the Classical Age
Timeline
11. Emperor, Aristocracy, and the Ritsuryō State: Court Politicsin Nara, Ross Bender
12. Oligarchy, Shared Rulership, and Power Blocs, Mikael S. Adolphson
13. Aristocratic Buddhism, Mikael S. Adolphson
14. The Canons of Courtly Taste, Robert Borgen and Joseph T. Sorensen
15. The Provinces and the Public Economy, 700–1100, Charlotte von Verschuer
16. The Shōen System, Ethan Segal
17. The Dawn of the Samurai, Karl F. Friday
18. The Kamakura Shogunate and the Beginnings of Warrior Power, Andrew Edmund Goble

Part IV
Demesne, Dominion, and Diffusion in the Medieval Age
Timeline
19. Kamakura and the Challenges of Governance, Ethan Segal
20. Go-Daigō, Takauji, and the Muromachi Shogunate, Andrew Edmund Goble
21. Medieval Religion, William M. Bodiford
22. Warriors, Warlords, and Domains, David Eason
23. Medieval Warfare, Thomas D. Conlan
24. Medieval Arts and Aesthetics, Linda H. Chance
25. Gender Relations in the Age of Violence, Hitomi Tonomura
26. The Rise of the Peasantry, Thomas Keirstead
27. The Medieval Economy, Ethan Segal
28. Diplomacy, Piracy, and the Space Between: Japan and East Asia in the Medieval Period, Michael Laver

Part V
Bureaucrats, Burghers, and Bailiwicks in the Early Modern Age
Timeline
29. The Sixteenth-Century Reunification, Lee Butler
30. The Political Order, Philip Brown
31. A Whole New World (Order): Early Modern Japanese Foreign Relations, 1550–1850, Michael Laver
32. The New Warriors: Samurai in Early Modern Japan, Denis Gainty
33. Urbanization, Trade, and Merchants, David L. Howell
34. Ukiyo asobi: Urban Arts and Entertainments in Early Modern Japan, Frank Chance
35. Religion in Early Modern Japan, Barbara Ambros
36. Peace Dividend: Agrarian Developments in Tokugawa Japan, Anne Walthall
37. Family, Gender, and Sex in Early Modern Japan, Denis Gainty
38. Thought, Education, and Popular Literacies in Early Modern Japan, Richard Rubinger