Kenmu: Go-Daigo's revolution
Although the short-lived Kenmu regime (1333-1336) of Japanese Emperor Go-Daigo is often seen as a doomed revanchist attempt to shore up the old aristocratic order, Andrew Edmund Goble here forcefully argues that the flamboyant Go-Daigo and his iconoclastic associates were seeking to overcome the old order and did, indeed, decisively move Japan into its medieval age. By birth, education, and circumstances, Go-Daigo should have been a weak, fatalistic bit player. Instead he was a bold actor who f…
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- Full title :Kenmu : Go-Daigo's revolution / Andrew Edmund Goble.
Summary
Although the short-lived Kenmu regime (1333-1336) of Japanese Emperor Go-Daigo is often seen as a doomed revanchist attempt to shore up the old aristocratic order, Andrew Edmund Goble here forcefully argues that the flamboyant Go-Daigo and his iconoclastic associates were seeking to overcome the old order and did, indeed, decisively move Japan into its medieval age. By birth, education, and circumstances, Go-Daigo should have been a weak, fatalistic bit player. Instead he was a bold actor who forced situations to his own benefit and led a rebellion that overthrew the Kamakura bakufu. He was a sexual and religious adventurer, a student of Chinese political theory, and a politician with an unprecedented knowledge of the various regions of Japan. Kenmu Go-Daigo's Revolution tells his extraordinary personal story vividly and sets the Kenmu polity against a broad backdrop of social economic, and intellectual change at a dynamic moment in Japanese history.
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- Publication Date:1996.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Council on East Asian studies, Harvard University, Distributed by Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, MA
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1996.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxi, 390 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0674502558, 9780674502550
- oclc:ocm34557463
- LC Classification:DS863
- Dewey Decimal:952/.022
Table of Contents
1. The Rise of Go-Daigo. A Divided Imperial Family. The Early Years. The Bunpo Compromise. Go-Daigo's Intellectual Orientation. Go-Daigo's "Capable Officials" The Move to Direct Rule -- 2. Moves and Setbacks, 1321-1324. Personnel Policy and Its Ramifications. City Control and Commercial Policies. Disputes in the Imperial Family. Go-Daigo and the Bakufu: The Shochu Incident -- 3. Reworking the Environment, 1325-1331. The Reshaping of the Imperial Family. A Collapsing Aristocracy. The Move on the Religious World. Another Push at the Bakufu -- 4. The Fall of the Kamakura Bakufu, 1331-1333. The Kinai. The Kanto. The Events -- 5. Consolidation, 1333-1334. Establishing Control. Stabilizing the Flux: The Claims Court. The Kenmu Policy on Land Rights -- 6. Transforming the Center: The Imperium and Kyoto. Power and Prerogative in the New State. Go-Daigo's Religious Policies. Commerce, Social Flux, and the Capital -- 7. The Power of Geography: Regions and Provinces, 1333-1335.
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