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Author : William Morell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780523420486
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Daimyō written by William Morell and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yoko Woodson
Publisher : Asian Art Museum
ISBN 13 : 9780939117802
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Lords of the Samurai written by Yoko Woodson and published by Asian Art Museum . This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan's samurai were professional soldiers, but they could also be cultivated artists, writers and philosophers. "Samurai" means "he who serves," and these fierce warriors acted in the service of powerful feudal lords known as daimyo ("great name"). Among the most important daimyo families were members of the Hosokawa clan, whose lineage dates back some six hundred years. Lords of the Samurai brings to life the code of the samurai and the private and public lives of the daimyo by focusing on approximately 160 works from the Hosokawa family collection housed in the Eisei-Bunko Museum in Tokyo, the Kumamoto Castle and the Kumamoto Municipal Museum in Kyushu. Japanese historical objects discussed include suits of armor, armaments (including swords and guns), formal attire, calligraphy, paintings, tea ware, lacquer ware, masks, and musical instruments. To the daimyo, martial arts were not just a physical or military activity—they were part of a spiritual and ethical program that governed every aspect of their existence. Featuring an extended essay by Thomas Cleary, Lords of the Samurai lays bare the principles that governed the spirit of the samurai, enabling it to endure for hundreds of years and continue to resonate today.
Author : Yoshiaki Shimizu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780894691225
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Japan: the Shaping of Daimyo Culture 1185-1868 written by Yoshiaki Shimizu and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Ravina
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804763860
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan written by Mark Ravina and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining local politics in three Japanese domains (Yonezawa, Tokushima, and Hirosaki), this book shows how warlords (daimyo) and their samurai adapted the theory and practice of warrior rule to the peacetime challenges of demographic change and rapid economic growth in the mid-Tokugawa period. The author has a dual purpose. The first is to examine the impact of shogunate/domain relations on warlord legitimacy. Although the shogunate had supreme power in foreign and military affairs, it left much of civil law in the hands of warlords. In this civil realm, Japan resembled a federal union (or "compound state"), with the warlords as semi-independent sovereigns, rather than a unified kingdom with the shogunate as sovereign. The warlords were thus both vassals of the shogun and independent lords. In the process of his analysis, the author puts forward a new theory of warlord legitimacy in order to explain the persistence of their autonomy in civil affairs. The second purpose is to examine the quantitative dimension of warlord rule. Daimyo, the author argues, struggled against both economic and demographic pressures. It is in these struggles that domains manifested most clearly their autonomy, developing distinctive regional solutions to the problems of protoindustrialization and peasant depopulation. In formulating strategies to promote and control economic growth and to increase the peasant population, domains drew heavily on their claims to semisovereign authority and developed policies that anticipated practices of the Meiji state.
Author : Stephen R. Turnbull
Publisher : Blanford
ISBN 13 : 9780713723298
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (232 download)
Download or read book Samurai Warlords written by Stephen R. Turnbull and published by Blanford. This book was released on 1992-04-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824834704
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Tour of Duty written by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Choice Outstanding Academic Title Alternate attendance (sankin kotai) was one of the central institutions of Edo-period (1603-1868) Japan and one of the most unusual examples of a system of enforced elite mobility in world history. It required the daimyo to divide their time between their domains and the city of Edo, where they waited upon the Tokugawa shogun. Based on a prodigious amount of research in both published and archival primary sources, Tour of Duty renders alternate attendance as a lived experience, for not only the daimyo but also the samurai retainers who accompanied them. Beyond exploring the nature of travel to and from the capital as well as the period of enforced bachelorhood there, Constantine Vaporis elucidates-for the first time-the significance of alternate attendance as an engine of cultural, intellectual, material, and technological exchange. Vaporis argues against the view that cultural change simply emanated from the center (Edo) and reveals more complex patterns of cultural circulation and production taking place between the domains and Edo and among distant parts of Japan. What is generally known as "Edo culture" in fact incorporated elements from the localities. In some cases, Edo acted as a nexus for exchange; at other times, culture traveled from one area to another without passing through the capital. As a result, even those who did not directly participate in alternate attendance experienced a world much larger than their own. Vaporis begins by detailing the nature of the trip to and from the capital for one particular large-scale domain, Tosa, and its men and goes on to analyze the political and cultural meanings of the processions of the daimyo and their extensive entourages up and down the highways. These parade-like movements were replete with symbolic import for the nature of early modern governance. Later chapters are concerned with the physical and social environment experienced by the daimyo's retainers in Edo; they also address the question of who went to Edo and why, the network of physical spaces in which the domainal samurai lived, the issue of staffing, political power, and the daily lives and consumption habits of retainers. Finally, Vaporis examines retainers as carriers of culture, both in a literal and a figurative sense. In doing so, he reveals the significance of travel for retainers and their identity as consumers and producers of culture, thus proposing a multivalent model of cultural change.
Author : Tadashi Ehara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975399934
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Daimyo Of 1867 written by Tadashi Ehara and published by . This book was released on 2010-03-24 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daimyo of 1867 Samurai Warlords of Shogun Japan Daimyo of 1867 provides a comprehensive catalog of samurai warlords in feudal Japan. Included are detailed information on every one of the 277 daimyo clans in the year 1867, towards the end of the samurai era. Every daimyo is listed with the image of the mon "family crest," han "fief" name, revenue size, rank at the Shogun's castle in Edo, prior ancestry, and other clan information. Many clan domain descriptions are embellished with photos of their castles, history of notable ancestors, and information about any branch families. Maps of castles and their surroundings are provided wherever possible. The information is organized as an handbook for creating more realistic backgrounds for role-playing games, boardgames, miniatures games, and computer games. It is also useful for those writing historical novels, screenplays, graphic novels, comic books, anim, and other creative works. Background information includes geography, history, major roads, social structure, religion, monetary system, and government structure. A gamers guide is provided with suggestions for scenarios, descriptions of martial arts training, ronin, vengeance, the use of ninja, and the naming of a daimyo's son at a coming-of-age ceremony. There is also a special section with lists of samurai-themed games. Among the daimyo you will find: - Asano Naganori, the daimyo whose seppuku led to the revenge of the 47 ronin Kudo Suketsun, who sparked the famous vendetta of the Soga Brothers, which took 18 years to complete - Ooka Tadasuk, a minor judge with legendary wisdom, who eventually became daimyo - Yagyu Munenori, the Shogun's sensei for swordsmanship, a hatamoto who became daimyo - Oda Nobunaga, a minor daimyo who began the final unification of Japan after a century of civil war, and who is the inspiration for the video game series Nobunaga's Ambition - Tokugawa Ieyasu, a minor daimyo who became Shogun, and established a dynasty that would rule the Land of the Rising Sun for two-and-a-half centuries, until the end of the samurai era. Profusely illuminated with hundreds of photos and images of maps, woodcut prints, and paintings. Suggested for mature readers.
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804779173
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (791 download)
Download or read book Divorce in Japan written by and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social, legal, and intellectual history of divorce in Japan over the last four centuries, during much of which Japan had one of the highest divorce rates in the world.
Author : Kazuo Nishiyama
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824818500
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (185 download)
Download or read book Edo Culture written by Kazuo Nishiyama and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nishiyama Matsunosuke is one of the most important historians of Tokugawa (Edo) popular culture, yet until now his work has never been translated into a Western language. Edo Culture presents a selection of Nishiyama’s writings that serves not only to provide an excellent introduction to Tokugawa cultural history but also to fill many gaps in our knowledge of the daily life and diversions of the urban populace of the time. Many essays focus on the most important theme of Nishiyama’s work: the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries as a time of appropriation and development of Japan’s culture by its urban commoners. In the first of three main sections, Nishiyama outlines the history of Edo (Tokyo) during the city’s formative years, showing how it was shaped by the constant interaction between its warrior and commoner classes. Next, he discusses the spirit and aesthetic of the Edo native and traces the woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e to the communal activities of the city’s commoners. Section two focuses on the interaction of urban and rural culture during the nineteenth century and on the unprecedented cultural diffusion that occurred with the help of itinerant performers, pilgrims, and touring actors. Among the essays is a delightful and detailed discourse on Tokugawa cuisine. The third section is dedicated to music and theatre, beginning with a study of no, which was patronized mainly by the aristocracy but surprisingly by commoners as well. In separate chapters, Nishiyama analyzes the relation of social classes to musical genres and the aesthetics of kabuki. The final chapter focuses on vaudeville houses supported by the urban masses.
Download or read book The Far East written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tadashi Ehara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975399958
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Shogun & Daimyo written by Tadashi Ehara and published by . This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The samurai ruled the Land of the Rising Sun from the end of the 12th century to the middle of the 19th century. The information in this resource is organized as a handbook for creating more realistic backgrounds for role-playing games, boardgames, miniatures games, and computer games.
Author : Eiko Ikegami
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067425466X
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Taming of the Samurai written by Eiko Ikegami and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-25 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic accessible to us through a sweeping investigation into the roots of Japanese organizational structures. She accomplishes this by focusing on the diverse roles that the samurai have played in Japanese history. From their rise in ancient Japan, through their dominance as warrior lords in the medieval period, and their subsequent transformation to quasi-bureaucrats at the beginning of the Tokugawa era, the samurai held center stage in Japan until their abolishment after the opening up of Japan in the mid-nineteenth century. This book demonstrates how Japan’s so-called harmonious collective culture is paradoxically connected with a history of conflict. Ikegami contends that contemporary Japanese culture is based upon two remarkably complementary ingredients, honorable competition and honorable collaboration. The historical roots of this situation can be found in the process of state formation, along very different lines from that seen in Europe at around the same time. The solution that emerged out of the turbulent beginnings of the Tokugawa state was a transformation of the samurai into a hereditary class of vassal-bureaucrats, a solution that would have many unexpected ramifications for subsequent centuries. Ikegami’s approach, while sociological, draws on anthropological and historical methods to provide an answer to the question of how the Japanese managed to achieve modernity without traveling the route taken by Western countries. The result is a work of enormous depth and sensitivity that will facilitate a better understanding of, and appreciation for, Japanese society.
Author : William Morell
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780523420875
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Daimyo's Revenge written by William Morell and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valor, duty, and love compel the samurai Tonomori to defeat the enemies of Elizabeth I and save Countess Diana from deadly conspirators, but returning to feudal Japan, he prepares his own revenge against a brutal daimyo
Author : Nicolas Fieve
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136624821
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Japanese Capitals in Historical Perspective written by Nicolas Fieve and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan's ability to develop its own brand of modernity has often been attributed in part to the sophistication of its cities. Concentrating on Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo, the contributors to this volume weave together the links between past and future, memory and vision, symbol and structure, between marginality and power, and between Japan's two great capital cities.
Author : Jeffrey P. Mass
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804722100
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (221 download)
Download or read book The Bakufu in Japanese History written by Jeffrey P. Mass and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes the recurring form of warrior government known as the Bakufu (or shogunate) that ruled Japan for nearly 700 years. All the essays in this collection clarify aspects of Japanese political tradition that have been neglected by Western writers, and point out alternatives to already stated views.
Author : William Morell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780523422381
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Daimyo's Conquest written by William Morell and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Turnbull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849084289
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Revenge of the 47 Ronin written by Stephen Turnbull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-20 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lord Kira brought about the death of Lord Asano, he made Asano's loyal samurai into ronin – masterless warriors. These men secretly plotted their revenge and one snowy winter's night, launched an ambitious raid against their enemy's mansion in Edo. What ensued was the fiercest sword battle to have been seen in Japan for over a century. The gates were stormed, Lord Kira was captured and executed, and his washed head placed on Lord Asano's tomb. This title details the background, planning, and execution of this incredible raid, looking at the equipment used by the ronin, the tactics they employed in storming the building, and the dramatic events that followed, as the surviving ronin committed mass suicide – a final act of loyalty and defiance that sealed their legend.
