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A history of Japan /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sansom, George Bailey, Sir, 1883-1965 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1958-63.
Series:Stanford studies in the civilizations of eastern Asia.
Subjects:
Japan > History.
Japan > History > To 1868.
Japon > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1868.
Japon > Histoire.
Japan.
To 1868
History.
Table of Contents:
  • volume 1. The land
  • The people
  • The Yamato state
  • The impact of Chinese culture
  • The capital city, 710-774
  • The new capital, 794-894
  • Reaction against Chinese influence
  • The Fujiwara regents
  • The rule of taste
  • Government by the cloistered emperors
  • Heian society. Its beliefs
  • The growth of a warrior class
  • Kiyomori
  • The Gempei War
  • The Eastern warriors
  • The feudal state
  • The Hojo regents
  • Administrative reforms and relations with the court
  • The Hojo regents, 1242-84
  • Relations with the Asiatic mainland
  • Japan after the Mongol invasions.
  • volume 2. The reign of Go-Daigo
  • The Kemmu restoration
  • The rise of Ashikaga Takauji
  • The Southern Court
  • Dissension in the Bakufu
  • The failure of the Southern Court
  • The end of the civil war
  • The life of the court
  • Ashikaga supremecy
  • Foreign relations under Yoshimitsu and Yoshimochi
  • Economic growth
  • Yoshimochi's successors
  • The Onin War
  • The capital and the provinces after The Onin War
  • Sengoku-Daimyo, the civil war barons
  • Seaborne trade
  • The road to unification
  • Christianity and Buddhism under Nobunaga
  • Nobunaga's last years
  • Hideyoshi's rise to power
  • Hideyoshi's political aims
  • The invasion of Korea
  • Hideyoshi's last years
  • Azuchi-Momoyama
  • Tokugawa ieyasu
  • The first years of the Tokugawa Kakufu.
  • volume 3. The nature of the Tokugawa government
  • Hidetada and Iemitsu
  • The feudal society
  • Foreign relations
  • The government of the Fiefs
  • Ietsuna, Shogun 1651-80
  • Learning and the arts
  • Rural life
  • Urban life
  • The expanding economy
  • The Shogunate, 1680-1716
  • Genroku
  • A new regime
  • The Bakufu in decline
  • Economic development and scientific knowledge
  • The Kansei reform
  • The further decline of the Bakufu
  • Breaches in the seclusion policy.