Japan in the Muromachi Age PDF
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This volume is one of a series on Japanese society published by the Univer sity of California Press under a special arrangement with the Social Science Research Council. Each volume is based upon a conference at tended by Japanese and foreign scholars; the purpose of each conference was to increase scholarly knowledge of Japanese society by enabling Japa nese and foreign scholars to collaborate and to criticize each other’s work. The conferences were sponsored by the Joint Committee on Japanese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science. Research Council, with funds provided by the Ford Foundation. J apan in the Muromachi Age Sponsored by the Social Science Research Council J apan IN THE MUROMACHIAGE JOHN W. HALL and TOYODA TAKESHI editors UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS BERKELEY LOS ANGELES LONDON University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England Copyright© 1977 by The Regents of the University of California ISBN 0-520-02888-0 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 74-22963 Printed in the United States of America CONTRIBUTORS AND COLLABORATORS Akamatsu Toshihidc Nagahara Keiji George Elison Paul Novograd Kenneth A. Grossberg John M. Rosenfield John W. Hall Barbara Ruch Hayashiya Tatsusaburö Robert Sakai ItO Teiji Satö Shin’ichi Kawai Masaharu Sugiyama Hiroshi Donald Keene Tanaka Takeo Cornelius J. Kiley Toyoda Takeshi Kuwayama Könen H. Paul Varley Miyagawa Mitsuru Stanley Weinstein V. Dixon Morris Kozo Yamamura Philip Yampolsky Editorial Assistants Richard Staubitz Kanai Madoka CONTENTS List of Illustrations_____________________________________ xi Preface_____________________________________________ xiii Introduction: The Muromachi Age in.Japanese History • 1 JOHN W. HALL PART ONE Time and Place. 9 1. Muromachi Japan: A Note on Periodization 11 2. Kyoto in the Muromachi Age • hayashiya with George Elison 15 TATSUSABURÖ PART TWO Political Organization 37 3. The Muromachi Power Structure • iohn w. h a ll 39 4. The Ashikaga Shogun and the Muromachi Bakufu Administration • with John W. Hall 45 sato sh in ’ichi 5. The BugyOnin System: A Closer Look • kuwayama with John W. Hall 53 , Könen 6. Shogun and Shugo: TTie Provincial Aspects of Muromachi Politics • kawai m asaharii with fCermeth A. Grossberg 65 PARTTHREE Lordship and Village 87 7. From Shoen to ChigyS: Proprietary Lordship and the Structure of T oral Power • m iyaoaw am itsiirii with Cornelius J. Kiley 89 8. Village Communities and Daimyo Power • nagahara with Kozo Tamamura 107 keiii X CONTENTS PART FOUR Commercial Economy and Social Change__________125 9,__The Growth of Commerce and the Trades_ • toyoda with V. ____129 TAKESHI AND SIIGIYAMA HIROSHI PlXOTl MoTTVS 10. Sakai : From Shöen to Port City • v. dixon morris_____145 11. Japan’s Relations with Overseas Countries • tanaka takeo imth Rnhtrt Snkni__________________________ 159 PART FIVE Cultural Life____________________179 12. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and the World of Kitayama : Social Change and Shogunal Patronage in Early Muromachi Japan • h.paulvarley________________________ 183 13. The Unity of the Three Creeds: A Theme in Japanese Ink Painting of the Fifteenth Century • johnm . ROSENFIEI-D_____________________________________________________________ 205 14. The Development of Shoin-Style Architecture• ito teiji with Paul Novograd__________________________227 15. The Comic Tradition in Renga • donaldkeene________241 16. Medieval . Jongleurs and the Making of a National Literature • _____________________229 B arbara ruch PART SIX Religious Life___________________ 311 17. Muromachi Zen and the Gozan System • akam atsu ___________________313 TOSHIH1DE AND PHILIP YAMPOLSKY 18. Rennyo and the Shinshu Revival • 331 Stanley W einstein Glossary____________________________________________ 359 List of Contributors___________________________________ 365 Index______________________________________________ 369
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