Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan

ISBN-13: 9780824872939 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 570 str.

Janet R. Goodwin; Joan R. Piggott; Kristina Buhrman

Opis

From the tenth to sixteenth centuries, landed estates served as sites of de facto government, trade network nodes, developing agricultural technology, and centres of religious practice in Japan. This volume examines the system from three perspectives: the land itself; the power derived from and exerted over the land; and the religious institutions and individuals involved in landholding practices.