Screen LibraryKings in all but name : the lost history of Ōuchi rule in Japan, 1350-1569 /
"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 expand...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2024] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"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"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 449 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-423) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780197677339 0197677339 |
| Index Number: | DS864 |
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D731.39 K313.3 |
| Call Number: | K313.3/C752 |
| Contents: | Introduction. The lost history of Ōuchi rule -- The founder Ōuchi Hiroyo -- Ōuchi Yoshihiro and the forging of Ōuchi identity -- The one who could see stars : the unlikely rule of Ōuchi Moriakira -- Fraternal succession, expanding trade, and durable administration -- Trader, shogun, king, and god -- Ōuchi Masahiro and the rise of Yamaguchi -- Yoshioki and the apogee of Ōuchi rule (1495-1528) -- The triumphs and tragedy of Ōuchi Yoshitaka (1528-51) -- The collapse -- Epilogue. Legacies. |