How do ordinary people respond to prolonged terror? The convulsion of Japan’s ’Warring States’ period between 1467 and 1568 destroyed the medieval order and exposed the framework of an early modern polity. Mary Elizabeth Berry investigates the experience of upheaval in Kyoto during this time.
Using diaries and urban records (extensively quoted in the text), Berry explores the violence of war, misrule, private justice, outlawry, and popular uprising. She also examines the structures of order, old and new, that abated chaos and abetted social transformation.
The wartime culture of Kyoto comes to life in a panoramic study that covers the rebellion of the Lotus sectarians, the organization of work and power in commoner neighborhoods, the replotting of urban geography, and the redefinition of authority and prestige in the arena of play.
How do ordinary people respond to prolonged terror? The convulsion of Japan’s ’Warring States’ period between 1467 and 1568 destroyed the medieval order and exposed the framework of an early modern polity. Mary Elizabeth Berry investigates the experience
Innehållsförteckning
LIST OF FIGURES, MAPS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
PRELUDE: THEY COLLECTED ONE HUNDRED FOURTEEN HEADS
1
The Culture of Lawlessness, the Politics of Demonstration
2
Dancing Is Forbidden: The Structures of Urban Conflict
3
Word Wars: The Refuge of the Past
4
Popular Insurrection
5
Work: The Structures of Daily Life
6
Neighborhood: The Reconfiguration of Attachment
7
Play: The Freedom of invention
AFTERWORD: SCENES IN AND AROUND THE CAPITAL
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Om författaren
Mary Elizabeth Berry is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Hideyoshi (1982).
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