Warrior Rule in Japan

by Marius Jansen

• ISBN13: 9780521484046
• ISBN10: 0521484049
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-09-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Japan was ruled by warriors for the better part of a millennium. From the twelfth to the nineteenth century its political history was dominated by the struggle of competing leagues of fighting men. This volume, comprised of chapters taken from Volumes 3 and 4 of The Cambridge History of Japan, traces the institutional development of warrior rule and dominance. Although samurai influence waned with the development of constitutional government, warrior values remained central to the ethical code of modern Japan.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
The Kamakura bakufu	1	(43)
Jeffrey P. Mass
The background to the Gempei War	2	(5)
The Gempei War	7	(7)
The Gempei aftermath: jito and shugo	14	(7)
The road to Jokyu	21	(4)
The Jokyu disturbance and its aftermath	25	(4)
Bakufu governance	29	(6)
Shugo and jito	35	(7)
The bakufu at mid-century	42	(2)
The decline of the Kamakura bakufu	44	(47)
Ishii Susumu
Jeffrey P. Mass
Hitomi Tonomura
Introduction	44	(3)
The Mongol invasions and the Kamakura bakufu	47	(17)
Japan after the Mongol wars	64	(12)
The fall of the Kamakura bakufu	76	(15)
The Muromachi bakufu	91	(56)
John Whitney Hall
Introduction	91	(2)
The rise of the Ashikaga house	93	(6)
The founding of the Muromachi bakufu	99	(6)
The path to Ashikaga legitimacy	105	(4)
Shogun, shugo, and provincial administration	109	(8)
The Muromachi distribution of power	117	(10)
The Muromachi bakufu: instruments of administration and enforcement	127	(8)
Bakufu fiscal and manpower supports	135	(6)
The last hundred years	141	(6)
The bakuhan system	147	(55)
John Whitney Hall
The Tokugawa house and its rise to power	149	(15)
Formation of the Edo bakufu	164	(5)
The bakuhan power structure	169	(6)
The Edo shogunate: the authority structure	175	(5)
Bakufu organization	180	(22)
The han	202	(53)
Harold Bolitho
The han and central control, 1600-1651	210	(10)
The han and central control after 1651	220	(12)
Han finances	232	(12)
Han politics	244	(11)
Bibliography	255	(16)
Glossary-index	271