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Insei: Abdicated sovereigns in the Politics of late-Heian Japan 1086–1185 by G. Cameron Hurst III

Insei: Abdicated sovereigns in the Politics of late-Heian Japan 1086–1185

Studies of the East Asian Institute

G. Cameron Hurst III

356 pages first pub 1976 (view editions) user-added

nonfiction history
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Explains how and why abdicated sovereigns emerged as important political figures in the late Heian period of Japan and reevaluates the manner in which Japanese scholars have treated the abdicated sovereign in the politics of the period. 

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