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Four Years in Izumi takes an in-depth and critical approach to understanding Japanese village life through analysis of the diary of Kujō Masamoto, the former chancellor of the imperial court who resided briefly in one of his provincial estates from 1501 to 1504. For a high ranking courtier to travel to the countryside and manage a family estate was unheard of during the era of Sengoku , the “country at war.” The diary Masamoto kept offers a remarkably rich and vivid portrait of village Japan, which has seen no significant study in English-language scholarship. Through extensive examination of the diary and close and critical reading of it and complementary sources, Lee Butler provides a window into the inner workings of late-medieval village life that challenges typical portrayals of the period. In Four Years in Izumi , we see the complexity of relations between commoners and elites in action. We also see the ways in which an estate functioned in practice at the heart of the medieval economy and local social structure.
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Keywords
- Annual tax
- Buddhism
- Buddhist monks
- Buddhist Temples
- Courtier debt
- Courtiers
- David Spafford
- drought
- Estate system
- famine
- Hine Estate
- Hineno
- Hitomi Tonomura
- Hosokawa Masamoto
- Iriyamada
- Izumi
- Japanese law codes
- Kujo Masamoto
- Kuroda Toshio
- Late medieval Japan
- Mary Elizabeth Berry
- Medieval community
- Negoroji
- Samurai
- Sengoku Japan
- Shinto
- Shinto shrines
- Shoen
- Tansen
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history
- Thomas Keirstead
- Warriors
- William Wayne Farris
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DOI: 10.3998/mpub.13021387Editions