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Japan --- History --- Kamakura period --- 1185-1333 --- Fiction
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J1882 --- J1800.40 --- J2284.41 --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- Nichiren --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- history -- Kamakura period, Yoshino (1185-1392) and Chūsei in general (1185-1600) --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- Kamakura period, Nanbokuchō (Yoshino) period (1185-1392) --- Nichiren
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Examines the Kemmu Restoration within the context of transition from rule by courtiers to rule by warriors in the early medieval age, and with the 14th century dynastic schism as a topic of Japanese historiography.
Japan --- History --- -History --- -Japan --- E-books --- J3348 --- J4600.40 --- Japan: History -- Chūsei -- Kamakura period -- Northern and southern courts, Nanbokuchō, Yoshino (1331-1392) --- Japan: Politics and law -- history -- Kamakura period, Yoshino (1185-1392) and Chūsei in general (1185-1600)
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Covers five years of the history of the Kamakura shogunate, which lasted one hundred and fifty years. Translates several chapters of an historical work covering these years.
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The medieval period of Japanese religious history is commonly known as one in which there was a radical transformation of the religious culture. This book suggests an alternate approach to understanding the dynamics of that transformation. One main topic of analysis focuses on what Buddhism - its practices and doctrines, its traditions and institutions - meant for medieval Japanese peoples themselves. This is achieved by using the notions of discourse and ideology and juxtaposing various topics on shared linguistic practices and discursive worlds of medieval Japanese Buddhism. Collating contributions from outstanding scholars in the field of Buddhist Studies, the editors have created an important work. It builds on preliminary work on rethinking the importance and meaning of Kamakura Buddhism published recently in English, and adds greatly to the debate.
J1800.40 --- J1700.40 --- Buddhism --- -Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Religions --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- history -- Kamakura period, Yoshino (1185-1392) and Chūsei in general (1185-1600) --- Japan: Religion in general -- history -- Kamakura period, Yoshino (1185-1392) and Chūsei in general (1185-1600) --- Japan --- -Buddhism --- History --- -Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- history -- Kamakura period, Yoshino (1185-1392) and Chūsei in general (1185-1600) --- -J1800.40
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This collection of essays is built around a major but previously unstudied theme in Japanese history--the extent to which the exaggeration of antiquity has distorted historical understanding. Ranging widely across the first thousand years of Japanese history, the author juxtaposes contemporary sources with inherited traditions and shows how standard periodizations are now being undone. Much of what has seemed old and potentially older turns out to be just the opposite; in a sense, Japanese history is "not as old as it has seemed to be." This theme of "historical misplacement" is pursued variously in these seven essays, four previously unpublished and three revised for this volume. In Chapters 1 and 7, which deal with the progress of Western historiography on premodern Japan, the author shows how research in primary sources has enabled scholars to challenge some of the most sacred assumptions about Japan's pre-1600 history. Chapter 1 assesses the contribution of John Whitney Hall and the scholarship he has helped to inspire, and Chapter 7 focuses on research done on the Kamakura era and what still needs to be done to increase our knowledge of this strategically placed period. In Chapters 2 and 6, the subject of antiquity is dealt with more directly: key historical terms and the concepts they have generated are relocated to the time frames where they actually appear, and lacunae in the sources--"black holes" in the author's phrase--are probed for possible new insights into the general subject of antiquity. In Chapter 3, the author uses the external historical construction of feudalism to illuminate conditions in medieval Japan, and his search for the language of lordship and vassalage results in some surprising discoveries. Chapter 5 is a kind of primer on contemporary source materials: where to find them, how to translate them, and how to deal with the special problem of vocabulary--unknown words that appear in no dictionaries and words that confound by the multip le contexts in which they appear. Chapter 4 introduces a new topic with a pioneering investigation of personal names, examining individual and group identity from the perspective of the names of individuals in the medieval era. Multiple names--susceptible to change, addition, and subtraction--are shown to reflect a wide spectrum of perception: passage through life's several stages, societal pressures, bondings, gender and kinship and, ultimately, notions of self and others. Altogether, the essays offer a rich mix of history, historiography, revisionism, and personal insight from the preeminent scholar of pre-1600 Japanese medieval documents and history.
Japan --- History --- J3310 --- J3341 --- Japan: History -- Kodai, earliest and premodern --- Japan: History -- Chūsei -- Kamakura period (1185-1333) --- To 1600 --- Japan - History - To 1600
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Dogen and Soto Zen builds upon and further refines a continuing wave of enthusiastic popular interest and scholarly developments in Western appropriations of Zen. In the last few decades, research in English and European languages on Dogen and Soto Zen has grown, aided by an increasing awareness on both sides of the Pacific of the important influence of the religious movement and its founder. The school has flourished throughout the medieval and early modern periods of Japanese history, and it is still spreading and reshaping itself in the current age of globalization. This volume continues the work of Steven Heine's recently published collection, Dogen: Textual and Historical Studies, featuring some of the same outstanding authors as well as some new experts who explore diverse aspects of the life and teachings of Zen master Dogen (1200-1253), the founder of the Soto Zen sect (or Sotoshu) in early Kamakura-era Japan. The contributors examine the ritual and institutional history of the Soto school, including the role of the Eiheji monastery established by Dogen as well as rites and precepts performed there and at other temples.
J1881.20 --- J1800.40 --- J2284.41 --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- Zen -- Sōtō --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- history -- Kamakura period, Yoshino (1185-1392) and Chūsei in general (1185-1600) --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- Kamakura period, Nanbokuchō (Yoshino) period (1185-1392) --- Zen Buddhism. --- Dōgen, --- Sōtōshū. --- Dōgen, - 1200-1253.
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