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Book SynopsisScholarship on premodern Japan has grown spectacularly over the past four decades, in both sophistication and volume. The new scholarship sees a higher reliance on primary documents, a shift away from the history of elites to broader exploration of social structures, and a reexamination of many of the key tenets which were once the rec
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I. Geography & the Environment
1.Geography & History and Geography in History
2. Climate & Environment in History
3: Classical Japan & the Continent
Part II. Political Events & Institutions
4. The Jōmon & Yayoi Ages
5. The Kofun era & Early State Formation
6. The Ritsuryō State
7. From Classical to Medieval? Ōchō Kokka, Kenmon Taisei & the Heian Court
8. The Court and Its Provinces: Producing and Distributing Wealth in Classical Society, 700–1200
9. Court & Countryside 1200-1600: The Articulation of Local Autonomy
10. The Imperial Court in Medieval Japan
11. The 16th Century: Identifying a New Group of "Unifiers" & Reevaluating the Myth of "Reunification"
Part III. Society & Culture
12. Religion in Archaic Japan
13. Gender and Family in the Archaic & Classical Ages
14. Heian-kyō: from Royal Center to Metropole
15. Religion in Nara & Heian Japan
16. The Historical Demography of Japan to 1700
17. Village and Rural Life in Medieval Japan
18. Family, Women, and Gender in Medieval Society
19. Outcasts & Marginals In Medieval Japan
20. Medieval Warriors & Warfare
21. Religion in Medieval Japan
Part IV. Economy & Technology
22. Coins & Commerce in Classical Japan
23. Knowledge of Nature & Craft: Researching the History of Science, Mathematics & Technology in Japan before 1600
24. Agriculture & Food Production
25. Commerce & Towns in Medieval Japan
Bibliography
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