Capital and countryside in Japan, 300-1180
Subtitle: Japanese historians in English
By: edited by Joan R. Piggott
Contributors: Piggott, Joan R.
Series: Cornell East Asia series -- 129
Publisher: Cornell University East Asia Program
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Ithaca, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9781885445391; 9781885445292
Subjects: Rural-urban relations -- Japan -- History; Japan -- History -- To 1185; Japan -- History -- To 1185 -- Historiography
Notes: "This collection of fourteen essays, each one rendered from the Japanese by an American researcher who particularly admires its historiographical contribution, focuses on the nature of bonds and relationships that linked capital and countryside from approximately 300 to 1180"--Introduction.

"Primary sources and documentary collections cited in the volume"--P. [403]-416.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [442]-470)and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Joan R. Piggott; title: Early state formation in Japan / Tsude Hiroshi ; introduced and interpreted by Walter Edwards; title: Treatise on duplicate mirrors / Kobayashi Yukio ; introduced and interpreted by Walter Edwards; title: Suruga and Tōtōmi in the Kofun Age / Hara Hidesaburō ; introduced and interpreted by Joan R. Piggott; title: The Hitachi Fudoki and the Fujiwara / Inoue Tatsuo ; introduced and interpreted by Michiko Aoki; title: The classical polity and its frontier / Takahashi Tomio ; introduced and interpreted by Karl Friday; title: Roads in the Tennō-centered polity / Takeda Sachiko ; introduced and interpreted by Joan R. Piggott; title: Traffic between capital and countryside in Ritsuryō Japan / Hotate Michihisa ; introduced by Janet R. Goodwin and interpreted by Janet R. Goodwin with Gustav Heldt; title: Toward regency leadership at court / Morita Tei ; introduced and interpreted by Joan R. Piggott; title: The court-centered polity / Sasaki Muneo ; introduced and interpreted by Joan R. Piggott; title: Kyoto and the estate system in the Heian Period / Toda Yoshimi ; introduced and interpreted by Janet R. Goodwin; title: The Mino Genji in the late classical age / Miyazaki Yasumitsu ; introduced and interpreted by Joan R. Piggott; title: Kōfukuji in the late Heian Period / Motoki Yasuo ; introduced and interpreted by Mikael S. Adolphson; title: Japan's medieval world / Ishimoda Shō ; introduced and interpreted by Joan R. Piggott; title: East and West in the late classical age / Koyama Yasunori ; introduced and interpreted by Bruce L. Batten.