Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan by Janet R. Goodwin

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Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan
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Janet R. Goodwin

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Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan
Janet R. Goodwin with Noda Taizō, Endō Motoo, Sachiko Kawai, Kristina Buhrman, Joan R. Piggott, Dan Sherer, Michelle M. Damian, David Eason, Kimura Shigemitsu, Hirota Kōji, Rieko Kamei-Dyche, Yoshiko Kainuma, Nagamura Makoto, Nishida Takeshi, Ōyama Kyōhei, Philip Garrett, Sakurai Eiji, Ethan Segal

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Landed estates (shōen) produced much of the material wealth supporting all levels of late classical and medieval Japanese society. During the tenth through sixteenth centuries, estates served as sites of de facto government, trade network nodes, d...