Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan by Philip Garrett, Nishida Takeshi, Hirota Kōji, Janet R Goodwin, Michelle M. Damian, Ethan Segal, Joan R. Piggott, Nagamura Makoto, David Eason, Sachiko Kawai, Kristina Buhrman, Yoshiko Kainuma, Ōyama Kyōhei, Endō Motoo, Dan Sherer, Rieko Kamei-Dyche, Kimura Shigemitsu, Noda Taizō, Sakurai Eiji

Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan
Philip Garrett, Nishida Takeshi, Hirota Kōji, Janet R Goodwin, Michelle M. Damian, Ethan Segal, Joan R. Piggott, Nagamura Makoto, David Eason, Sachiko Kawai, Kristina Buhrman, Yoshiko Kainuma, Ōyama Kyōhei, Endō Motoo, Dan Sherer, Rieko Kamei-Dyche, Kimura Shigemitsu, Noda Taizō, Sakurai Eiji

586 pages • first pub 2018 (view editions)

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Landed estates (shoen) produced much of the material wealth supporting all levels of late classical and medieval Japanese society. During the tenth through sixteenth centuries, estates served as sites of de facto government, trade network nodes, d...