Regent Redux: A Life of the Statesman-scholar Ichijō Kaneyoshi by Steven D. Carter

Regent Redux: A Life of the Statesman-scholar Ichijō Kaneyoshi

Steven D. Carter

296 pages first pub 1996 (view editions)

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This book tells the story of a remarkable man who, against his will and largely against his knowledge, lived through what we now regard as the final decline of the ancient nobility in Japan. It is as a scholar, especially of the Tale of Genji and...

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