New PDF release: A History of Japan, 1334-1615

By George Sansom

ISBN-10: 0804705259

ISBN-13: 9780804705257

This is a simple narrative of the advance of eastern civilization from 1334 to 1615 through the writer of Japan: a brief Cultural History. whereas whole in itself, it's also the 1st quantity of a three-volume paintings so as to be the 1st large-scale, entire historical past of Japan.

Taken as an entire, the projected heritage represents the end result of the lifestyles paintings of possibly the main distinctive historian now writing on Japan. in contrast to the well known Short Cultural History, it's involved commonly with political and social phenomena and merely by the way touches on faith, literature, and the humanities. The remedy is essentially descriptive and genuine, however the writer deals a few pragmatic interpretations and indicates comparisons with the background of different peoples.

A background of Japan: 1334-1615 describes the expansion of a brand new feudal hierarchy, the ebb and stream of civil conflict, the increase and fall of serious households, and the improvement amidst severe political disease of exceptional new positive factors in institutional and monetary lifestyles. this can be the interval of increasing relatives with different components of Asia and of the coming of investors and missionaries from eu countries—the first touch of Japan with the West. the amount ends with an account of the abortive invasion of Korea and the final outburst of the civil warfare that used to be terminated in 1615 via the victory of the 1st of the Tokugawa Shoguns, Ieyasu.

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A strong temptation was offered by the great estates controlled by the Hojo leaders, whom they no longer respected. Accordingly Go-Daigo went on with his plans until the spring of 1331, when they were treacherously revealed by one of his three trusted advisers, Fujiwara Sadafusa. Shortly after this the Bakufu sent officers to Kyoto, where they caused the arrest of certain impor­ tant monks and others party to the Court’s intentions. These persons were sent to Kamakura for interrogation, and the nature of the con­ spiracy was made clear.

Slow as they were to act, the Bakufu did presently decide to send a strong expedition to the W est, a demonstration in force. Go-Daigo heard of this intention from his eldest son, Prince Daitd (better known by his lay name of M orinaga), whom he had made an Abbot of Hiyeizan for military rathe: than ecclesiastical purposes. He had wisely fore­ seen that in a struggle with the feudal overlords it would be of great importance to ha/e the most influential religious bodies on his side. Meanwhile, to add to these advantages, the Enryakuji and its chapels formed an immense receiving house for political news and gossip * The two Hino ( they were not related) were much trusted by Go-Daigo.

THE REIGN OF GO-DAIGO 11 deal with the uprising of loyalists in the Home Provinces the Bakufu had been obliged to withdraw troops from the outer provinces, such as Harima. There Norimura, the head of a family named Akamatsu (o f Murakami Genji stock), was emboldened by the absence of Bakufu forces to take control of his own province and to march into Settsu, next to the province of Yamashiro, in which the capital lay. H e even tried a coup de main in the capital itself. H e was repulsed, but the fact that a provincial chieftain of moderate standing could venture an attack on the imperial city was a disconcerting sign of the times.

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