The Cambridge History of Japan
Contributors: Donald H. Shively (Editor); William H. McCullough (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 28, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 780
ISBN-13: 9780521223539
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; Medieval; Japan - History; History; History - General History; History: World; Japan; Asia - Japan; History / Medieval; Japan - History - To 1185
First sentence: The man known to history as Emperor Kammu (737-806, r. 781-806) was an obscure official in his mid-thirties when the exigencies of Nara politics catapulted his almost equally obscure father, Konin (702-82, r. 770-81), onto the imperial throne in 770 and elevated Kammu himself to the position of crown prince three years later.