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...F. Joüon Des Longrais Land and Society in Medieval Japan. Studies by Kan'ichi Asakawa . Compiled and edited by the Committee for the Publication of Dr. K. Asakawa's Works in Cooperation with the Council on East Asian Studies of Yale University. Published, with Introductory Essays by J. W...

... dominance under Chiang Kai-shek, and that of its subsequent lapse (1937-49) m t 0 political arteriosclerosis. HOWARD L. BOORMAK Columbia University Land and Society in Medieval Japan. Studies by Kan'ichi Asakawa. Compiled and edited by the Committee for the Publication of Dr. K. Asakawa's Works...

...Ardath W. Burks 524 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The Early Institutional Life of Japan: A Study in the Reform of 645 A.D. By K. [AN1- Arizona Press, 1964. 121. Illustrations; Glossary; Bibliography; Index. $3.75. ICHI] ASAKAWA. Second Edition, with Introduction by HYMAN KUBLIN. New This monograph...

... 1967 BOOK REVIEWS 707 book with a separate Japanese page-numbering (p. 137). As a matter of fact, it is not the work of K. Asakawa, but an entirely new compilation of well-edited documents, supplemented by the Japanese participants under the supervision of Professor Takeuchi Rizo, President...

... Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 524 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The Early Institutional Life of Japan: A Study in the Reform of 645 A.D. By K. [AN1- Arizona Press, 1964. 121. Illustrations; Glossary; Bibliography; Index. $3.75. ICHI] ASAKAWA. Second Edition, with Introduction by HYMAN KUBLIN. New This monograph...

... , 1928 ) ; Keiichirō Aoki , Nihon Nōmin Undōshi [ A History of Peasant Movements in Japan ] ( Tokyo , 1959 ). 7 Ken'ichi Asakawa , “ Notes on Village Government in Japan after 1600, Il ” Journal of American Oriental Society , XXXI ( 1911 ), 168 . 8 Elders...

... ( 1962 ), 15 – 51 . 3 As Hall points out in his “Reassessment,” the term feudalism was used by Westerners in Japan decades before Murdoch wrote. 4 Asakawa K. , “ Some Aspects of Japanese Feudal Institutions ,” Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan , 46 : 1 ( 1918...

.... " Nakamura, L, 167-168, 356. 16 Nakamura, L, 353. 17 Nakamura, L, 78, 93. 18 Kagoshima-ken shi, II, 165-166. For a discussion on jito see Takekoshi, I, 164; Asakawa, pp. 7, 31. Nakamura, L, 353-354, states that in 1861 the daimyo of Satsuma ordered the jito to reside in his administrative district...

... have thought it elementary and usual. Nor can I subscribe to the view that the late Professor Asakawa's treatment of feudalism is "overly legalistic." It is all very well to say that the new Japanese scholars have sought to "analyze feudalism from the bottom up," and to condemn the study of charters...

... (a curator at the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, ?–?); Tanabe Takatsugu (a faculty member at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, 1890–1945); Kawai Kanjirō (a potter and a key figure in the mingei movement, 1890–1966); Okuda Seiichi (founder of the Oriental Ceramic Research Institute, 1883–1955); Asakawa...

... to the Pilot in Japan. 3 Richard Hildreth , Japan as it was and is . Boston , 1855 , p. 174 . 4 Asakawa K. , The Documents of Iriki . Illustrative of the Development of the Feudal Institutions of Japan . New Haven , 1929 , p. 75 ff., p. 374 ff. 5 Sansom...

... of the development of the nanushi. Indeed I should have thought it elementary and usual. Nor can I subscribe to the view that the late Professor Asakawa's treatment of feudalism is "overly legalistic." It is all very well to say that the new Japanese scholars have sought to "analyze feudalism from the bottom up...

... of Asakawa's penetrating studies of medieval Japan the intellectual respectability of making comparative statements on the medieval histories of Japan and Western Europe has been well-established. Frequently, of course, we have allowed ourselves to make such statements without adequately understanding...

... of his achievements that I should like to devote the remainder of this review. For nearly seventy years now ever since the publication of the first of Asakawa's penetrating studies of medieval Japan the intellectual respectability of making comparative statements on the medieval histories of Japan...

... of the field. As a Harvard student in the 1930s, Edwin O. Reischauer was unable to take a single course in the Japanese language. At Yale, Kan'ichi Asakawa languished in the junior faculty ranks for twenty-seven years until his promotion to full professor when he was sixty-three. No longer do we have to rely...

... nature of feudal law.8 K. Asakawa has studied the evolving patterns of land tenure and fiscal administration.9 What has been lacking has been a recognition of the full magnitude and variety of the institutional changes which accompanied the emergence of the modern daimyo and the capacity to describe...

..., and their prestige and power decreased. For example, the police no longer supervise the compulsory house cleanings which was formerly one of their chief duties and principal sources of graft money. 11 Asakawa Kan-ichi , “Notes on village government in Japan,” Journal of the American Oriental...

.... Antiquity and Anachronism in Japanese History (Stanford University Press, 1992; paper 1995) was prepared as a kind of "mid-career summing up" (p. xvii), and as a celebration and a tribute to a genealogical line that goes back to Kan'ichi Asakawa and John Whitney Hall. It elaborates a type of history...

..., Edwin O. Reischauer was unable to take a single course in the Japanese language. At Yale, Kan'ichi Asakawa languished in the junior faculty ranks for twenty-seven years until his promotion to full professor when he was sixty-three. No longer do we have to rely on chance conversations and internal...

... University ALBERT M. CRAIG Government and Local Power in Japan: A Study on Bizen Province 500-1700. By JOHN WHITNEY HALL. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1966. x, 446. Illustrations, Maps, Bibliography, Index. $12.50. Not since the articles and books of the late Professor Asakawa of Yale...