Reading medieval ruins : urban life and destruction in sixteenth-century Japan
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Bibliographic Information
Reading medieval ruins : urban life and destruction in sixteenth-century Japan
Cambridge University Press, 2022
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Urban life and destruction in 16th-century Japan
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
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Note
Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-236) and index
Contents of Works
- A provincial palace city as an urban space
- The material culture of urban life
- Late medieval warlords and the agglomeration of power
- The material foundations of faith
- Culture and sociability in the provinces
- Urban destruction in late medieval Japan
- Epilogue - the excavated nation on display
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Japanese provincial city of Ichijodani was destroyed in the civil wars of the late sixteenth century but never rebuilt. Archaeological excavations have since uncovered the most detailed late medieval urban site in the country. Drawing on analysis of specific excavated objects and decades of archaeological evidence to study daily life in Ichijodani, Reading Medieval Ruins in Sixteenth-Century Japan illuminates the city's layout, the possessions and houses of its residents, its politics and experience of war, and religious and cultural networks. Morgan Pitelka demonstrates how provincial centers could be dynamic and vibrant nodes of industrial, cultural, economic, and political entrepreneurship and sophistication. In this study a new and vital understanding of late medieval society is revealed, one in which Ichijodani played a central role in the vibrant age of Japan's sixteenth century.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- 1. A provincial palace city as an urban space
- 2. The material culture of urban life
- 3. Late medieval warlords and the agglomeration of power
- 4. The material foundations of faith
- 5. Culture and sociability in the provinces
- 6. Urban destruction in late medieval japan
- Epilogue: The excavated nation on display
- Bibliography
- Index.
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