...Roy Andrew Miller Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1955 1955 Ashikaga gakkō no kenkyū . ( Studies in the Ashikaga College ). By Kawase Kazuma . Tokyo , Kōdansha , 1948 . ii, xi, 367 . 422 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY insisted upon regarding the most powerful warrior...

...John Whitney Hall Abstract The institutional foundations of the Tokugawa daimyo have been obscured by the lack of insight which historians have traditionally shown into the history of the Ashikaga period and, in particular, into the late Ashikaga, or Sengoku, age. Like the Dark Ages in Europe...

... the general editorship of John W. Hall. 7 Yoshinori's reorganization is discussed by Iikura Harutake, “Onin no ran iko ni okeru muromachi bakufu no seikaku,” Nihonshi Kenkyu, 139–40 (1974), p. 142. See also Sato Shin'ichi, ”Ashikaga yoshinori shiritsuki no bakufu seiji,” Hosei Shigaku, 20 (1968...

... those decades. While this book is not an easy read, it contains a wealth of new information for the determined reader who wants to know what happened after the failure of Go-Daigo Tennō's restoration in 1336, and until the time when Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358–1408) came to dominate the reunified court...

... KEENE. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. x, 208 pp. $29.95 (cloth). The successive sho¯guns of the Ashikaga family had more than their share of bad luck. Yoshikazu (1407 25), the fth, died in of ce while still a teenager, and the seventh, Yoshikatsu (1434 43), was younger still when he too...

... be warmly recommended. P. F. KORNICKI University of Cambridge Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan. By DONALD KEENE. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. x, 208 pp. $29.95 (cloth). The successive sho¯guns of the Ashikaga family had more than their share of bad luck...

... to the introduction of lectures on medical and military works. In an appendix (pp. 305-355), dealing with the resources of the college library, still in situ in Ashikaga-shi, Tochigi-ken (Shinsotsuke), Kawase reprints catalogues of the collection in 1725 and 1797. His account (pp. 86-90) of notices of the college...

...). The founding of both the Kamakura and Ashikaga Bakufu are regarded "not as revolutionary breaks with the past, but as evolutionary stages" of historical development (p. 4). The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 is an examination of the institutional structure of the Kamakura and Muromachi Bakufu...

... the "institutional continuity from preKamakura days through the first centuries of Bakufu rule" (p. 3). The founding of both the Kamakura and Ashikaga Bakufu are regarded "not as revolutionary breaks with the past, but as evolutionary stages" of historical development (p. 4). The book is divided into two parts. Part...

... currency, and the Ashikaga Shogunate even after its nominal unification of Japan was not in a position to mint adequate quantities. Consequently, the Japanese demand for Chinese coins was such that some of the Ashikaga shoguns were willing to accept a vassal-ruler relationship with the Ming for the purpose...

... Harrington and Peter Arnesen examine the mechanisms by which Ashikaga influence was extended into the provinces. Both suggest that the Ashikaga were not solely dependent on shugo and that they successfully created effective controls in the countryside through their retainers and through regional...

... and kakemono form; watercolor on paper, [j 32.42] Ashikaga; round kakebotehe showing Monju Bosatsu, color and kirikane on lacquered wood; D. 22i/8". [j 32.43] Kamakura; "Founding of a Buddhist temple"; color on silk; kakemono; 14th cent.; H. 60", W. 32". [j 32.44] Kamakura; "Shotoku Taishi at the age of twenty...

... officials and provincial proprietors. It faltered briefly during a flirtation with the Southern Court early in the fourteenth century but was soon retrieved in 1363, when Ouchi Hiroyo's politic submission to the Ashikaga Bakufu won for him the position of shugo of Suo and Nagato. Under the Kamakura...

..., the various stratagems employed to reap the profits of a growing commerce, and the ruler's drive to expand the jurisdiction of his bureaucracy and thefinalauthority of his courts, all bespeak a nascent Ashikaga kingdom, (p. 6) The characterization of the Ashikaga as kings is not new Sato Shinichi, for example...

... various forms of taxation by other overlords and helped them collect debts. The temple basically issued business licenses and ran a protection racket, but without regulating how the lenders conducted their business. Living right in Kyoto, the Ashikaga shoguns and their minions were more demanding...

... as an institution and upon the historical forces which led to the development of Japanese feudalism. Stanford University ROBERT H. BROWER Ashikaga gakko no kenkyu %$W&OW% (Studies in the Ashikaga College). By KAWASE KAZUMA JI|#fl-JEg. Tokyo, Kodansha, 1948. ii, xi, 367. The survival and preservation of Chinese...

... for which even the priests seemed considerably relieved. Up to the middle of Ashikaga this statue was probably not a hidden idol, it accurately reflects the description in "jogu oin" of the Shichidaiji junreiki . . . This was a common style of Buddhist statues of the Suiko period: the head and limbs...

... decrees from the Fujiwara chieftain to temples, shrines, and private estates was a public institution is misleading. Perhaps the most in-depth and refreshing analysis can be found in chapter 5, where Stavros shows how the Ashikaga shoguns placed themselves and their shogunate within the old structures...

..." which moved from Kaneyoshi back to his illustrious ancestors, outward to the imperial institution, to the Ashikaga Shogunate, to Buddhist temple complexes, and to rival courtly families, and forward to his own heirs (p. 2). In a poststructural age which cautions us to be attentive to the "disappearing...

... to protect them from various forms of taxation by other overlords and helped them collect debts. The temple basically issued business licenses and ran a protection racket, but without regulating how the lenders conducted their business. Living right in Kyoto, the Ashikaga shoguns and their minions were more...