Kings in all but name : the lost history of Ōuchi rule in Japan 1350-1569

Author/Creator:

Conlan, Thomas, author

Publication/Creation:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Format:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Kings in all but name : the lost history of Ōuchi rule in Japan 1350-1569 / Thomas D. Conlan

Variant Titles:

Lost history of Ōuchi rule in Japan 1350-1569

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Electronic books

Subjects:

Ōuchi family
Daimyo--Japan
Daimyo--Genealogy
Japan--Kings and rulers
Korea--Kings and rulers
Japan--Politics and government--1333-1600
Yamaguchi-ken (Japan)--Politics and government
Japan--Foreign relations--1185-1600
Korea--Foreign relations--1392-1637
Japan--Relations--Korea
Korea--Relations--Japan
Japan--Yamaguchi-ken--Genealogy

Description/Summary

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"In the sixteenth century, the Ōuchi family were kings in all but name over much of the Japanese archipelago. Immensely wealthy, they controlled sea lanes stretching out from Japan to Korea and China, while the Ōuchi city of Yamaguchi functioned as an important regional entrepôt, with an expanding population and a host of temples and shrines. The family was unique in claiming ethnic descent from Korean kings, and-remarkably for this time-such claims were recognized in both Korea and Japan. Their position, coupled with dominance over strategic ports and mines, allowed them to facilitate trade throughout East and Southeast Asia. They played a key cultural role, in disseminating Confucian texts, Buddhist sutras, ink paintings, and pottery, and in creating a distinctive, hybrid culture that fused Japanese, Korean, and Chinese beliefs, objects, and customs. This monograph reveals that Japan from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries was an ethnically diverse state, replete with extensive mines, and closely bound in trading ties to Korea and China. It focuses on the Ōuchi, a magnate family from western Japan that was overthrown shortly after the period of initial Portuguese contact. The work provides a chronological narrative of their rule, focusing on the Ōuchi rulers, and showing how rituals, policies politics and economics were interwoven, and that what has been thought of as a period of warfare and turmoil was actually a stable and prosperous trading state"--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (xv, 449 pages) : illustrations, maps

Local Note:

Available to current Emory students, faculty and staff.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937867539102486

ISBN:

9780197677360
0197677363
9780197677346
0197677347