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Verfasst von:	Conlan, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Kings in all but name
Titelzusatz:	the lost history of Ōuchi rule in Japan, 1350-1569
Verf.angabe:	Thomas D. Conlan
Verlagsort:	New York, NY
Verlag:	Oxford University Press
Jahr:	2024
Umfang:	1 online resource.
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Oxford scholarship online
Fussnoten:	Also issued in print: 2024. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 27, 2023)
ISBN:	978-0-19-767736-0
Abstract:	In the 16th century, members of the Ōuchi family were kings in all but name in much of Japan. Immensely wealthy, they controlled sea lanes stretching to Korea & China, as well as the Japanese city of Yamaguchi, which functioned as an important regional port with a growing population & a host of temples & shrines. The family was unique in claiming ethnic descent from Korean kings, & such claims were recognized in both Korea & Japan. Their position, coupled with dominance over strategic ports & mines, allowed them to facilitate trade throughout East & Southeast Asia. They also played a key cultural role in disseminating Confucian texts, Buddhist sutras, ink paintings, & pottery, & in creating a distinctive, hybrid culture that fused Japanese, Korean, & Chinese beliefs, objects, & customs. This book shows how Japan was an ethnically diverse state from the 14th through the 16th centuries.
	"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"--
DOI:	doi:10.1093/oso/9780197677339.001.0001
URL:	Resolving-System: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197677339.001.0001
	DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197677339.001.0001
Datenträger:	Online-Ressource
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
Sach-SW:	History
	Asian history
K10plus-PPN:	1883479975
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