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List of Illustrations | |
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Map: The Provinces of Premodern Japan | |
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Preface | |
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Landmarks, Eras, and Appellation in Japanese History | |
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Japan's Natural Setting | |
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Sorting the Past | |
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Defining "Ancient" and "Classical," | |
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Defining "Medieval," | |
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Defining "Early Modern," | |
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Part II | |
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Timeline | |
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Origins of the Japanese People | |
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What Used to Be Called Shinto: The Question of Japans Indigenous Religion | |
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The Emergence of Political Rulership and the State in Early Japan | |
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Early Japan and the Continent | |
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Centralization and State Formation in Sixth-and Seventh-Century japan | |
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Court, Capital, and Countryside in the classical Age | |
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Timeline | |
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Emperor, Aristocracy, and the Ritsuryo State: Court Politics in | |
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Oligarchy, Shared Rulership, and Power Blocs | |
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Aristocratic Buddhism | |
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The Canons of Courtly Taste | |
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The Provinces and the Public Economy, 700-1100 | |
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The Shoen System | |
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The Dawn of the Samurai | |
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The Kamakura Shogunate and the Beginnings of Warrior Power | |
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Demesne, Dominion, and Diffusion in the Medieval Age | |
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Timeline | |
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Kamakura and the Challenges of Governance | |
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Go-DaigM, Takauji, and the Muromachi Shogunate | |
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Medieval Religion | |
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Warriors, Warlords, and Domains | |
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Medieval Warfare | |
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Medieval Arts and Aesthetics | |
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Gender Relations in the Age of Violence | |
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The Rise of the Peasantry | |
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The Medieval Economy | |
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Diplomacy, Piracy, and the Space Between: Japan and East Asia in the Medieval Period | |
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Bureaucrats, Burghers, and Bailiwicks in the Early Modern Age | |
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Timeline | |
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The Sixteenth-Century Reunification | |
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The Political Order | |
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A Whole New World (Order): Early Modern Japanese Foreign Relations, 1550-1850 | |
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The New Warriors: Samurai in Early Modern Japan | |
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Urbanization, Trade; and Merchants | |
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Ukiyo asobi: Urban Arts and Entertainments in Early Modem Japan, Frank Chance | |
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Religion in Early Modern Japan | |
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Peace Dividend: Agrarian Developments in Tokugawa Japan | |
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Family, Gender, and Sex in Early Modern Japan | |
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Thought, Education, and Popular Literacies in Early Modern Japan | |
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Bibliography | |
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About the Authors | |
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Index | |