The Vicissitudes of a Medieval Japanese Warrior
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The Vicissitudes of a Medieval Japanese Warrior. / Oxenbøll, Morten.
In: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2007, p. 43-54.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The Vicissitudes of a Medieval Japanese Warrior
AU - Oxenbøll, Morten
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - In standard accounts of medieval Japanese society, enormous stress is put on the conflicts between local landholders (zaichi ryôshu) and absentee proprietors. Fuelled by the debate on feudalism that divided scholars up until the early 1990s, these conflicts have widely been recognised as proof of the diminishing powers of the central elite in, or near, Kyoto and of the increasing absorption of power by warriors in both the countryside and in the administration of the military government, the bakufu. The conflicts were, in other words, seen in the structural context of a system of huge landed estates (shôen) owned by court nobles or large religious institutions, which were gradually replaced by much smaller proprietary units controlled personally by individual warrior families. This paper discusses one case of warrior/proprietor confrontation, that between Terada Hônen and the Tôji temple in the beginning of the fourteenth century.
AB - In standard accounts of medieval Japanese society, enormous stress is put on the conflicts between local landholders (zaichi ryôshu) and absentee proprietors. Fuelled by the debate on feudalism that divided scholars up until the early 1990s, these conflicts have widely been recognised as proof of the diminishing powers of the central elite in, or near, Kyoto and of the increasing absorption of power by warriors in both the countryside and in the administration of the military government, the bakufu. The conflicts were, in other words, seen in the structural context of a system of huge landed estates (shôen) owned by court nobles or large religious institutions, which were gradually replaced by much smaller proprietary units controlled personally by individual warrior families. This paper discusses one case of warrior/proprietor confrontation, that between Terada Hônen and the Tôji temple in the beginning of the fourteenth century.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - banditvæsen
KW - konflikt
KW - Japan
KW - middelalder
KW - banditry
KW - conflict
KW - Japan - history
KW - akuto
M3 - Journal article
VL - 17
SP - 43
EP - 54
JO - Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
JF - Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
SN - 1356-1863
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 1812562