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

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

586 pages • first pub 2018 (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...