The Geography of Power in Medieval Japan.
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TextSeries: Princeton legacy libraryPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (192 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781400862719
- 140086271X
- Manors -- Japan -- History
- Peasants -- Japan -- History
- Japan -- History -- To 1600
- Japon -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 1600
- HISTORY -- General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- Manors
- Peasants
- Japan
- Business & Economics
- Real Estate, Housing & Land Use
- To 1600
- 305.5/0951/0902 305.509510902
- HD914 .K4 2014
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Cover; Contents; 1 In Go-Sanjo's Archive: Discovering the System of the Estates; 2 Hyakusho and the Rhetoric of Identity; 3 Offical Transcripts: Myo, Maps, Surveys, and the Entitlement of the Estate ; 4 The Theater of Protest; 5 Conclusion: The Debate About Decline; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
In this reevaluation of the estate system, which has long been recognized as the central economic institution of medieval Japan, Thomas Keirstead argues that estates, or shoen, constituted more than a type of landownership. Through an examination of rent rolls, land registers, maps, and other data describing individual estates he reveals a cultural framework, one that produced and shaped meaning for residents and proprietors. Keirstead's discussion of peasant uprisings shows that the system, however, did not define a stable, closed structure, but was built upon contested terrain. Drawing on.
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