... to understand these art forms, we must therefore make a systematic study of their relationship to Zen. The particular species of Zen diat is said to have produced and fostered these arts is the Rinzai Zen developed by Muso at the beginning of the Muromachi Period (1336–1573) when Zen first became a pervasive...

... information does exist to permit independent testing of the validity of conclusions that have been based on the historian's examination of the archival record—for example, the lower bureaucracy during the Muromachi period (1336–1573), which consisted of a group of officials known as the bugyōnin . Copyright...

...Barbara Ruch Histoire de Yokobue (Yokobue no sōshi): Etudes sur les récits de l'époque muromachi . By Jacqueline Pigeot . Paris : Presses Universitaires de France , 1972 . iv, 178 pp. Bibliography, Maps. ¥ 1200 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 354...

...Andrew Goble The Laws of the Muromachi Bakufu . By Kenneth Grossberg and Kanamoto Nobuhisa (trans.). Tokyo : Sophia University Press (Monumenta Nipponica Monograph No. 56), 1981 . 171 pp. $10. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 358 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Suzanne Gay Japan's Renaissance: The Politics of the Muromachi Bakufu . By Kenneth Alan Grossberg . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1981 . 207 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $15. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 664 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Gregory P. Levine Zen Buddhist Landscape Arts of Early Muromachi Japan (1336–1573) . By Joseph Parker . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1999 . xiv, 302 pp. $24.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 1150 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Reinier H. Hesselink War and Faith: Ikkō Ikki in Late Muromachi Japan . By Carol Richmond Tsang . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2007 . x , 315 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 Carol Richmond Tsang sets...

... scholars to view these stories anachronistically as women's literature from the Muromachi period. Evidence from medieval diaries, however, makes it clear that these stories were not originally written for women. To date close to five hundred of these largely anonymous stories have emerged to form...

...Conrad Totman Abstract A number of English-language scholarly studies of medieval Japanese institutional history have appeared in print in the past few years. This seems a fitting time to appraise their contribution to our understanding of Japanese history from late Heian through the Muromachi...

... published in volumes 3 and 4 of The Cambridge History ofJapan: "The Kamakura Bakufu" by Jeffrey P. Mass, "The Decline of the Kamakura Bakufu" by Ishii Susumu, "The Muromachi Bakufu" and "The Bakuhan System" by John W. Hall, and "The Han" by Harold Bolitho. A twelvepage preface by Marius Jansen provides...

...George O. Totten Nihon shakaishugi undō shi [A history of the Japanese socialist movement] . Ed. Sakisaka Itsurō . Muromachi Shinsho 104. Tokyo : Muromachi Shobō , 1955 . 261 . 140 yen. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 BOOK REVIEWS 293 Nihon shakaishugi...

...Roy Andrew Miller Abstract Katō Shūichi's new history of Japanese literature will be completed with the publication of its second volume, promised by the publisher for 1980, and advertised as “tak[ing] the story from the end of the Muromachi period … to the present day”). Whatever critical response...

...Richard N. McKinnon Abstract The Nō, Japan's first great dramatic form, was fully developed by two great performers, Kannami (1333–1384) and his son Zeami (1363–1443), in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the heart of the Muromachi period. The Nō remained one of Japan's primary...

...Michele Marra Abstract When buddhist institutions directed their efforts to the evangelization of the common people during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods (1192–1573), they met a set of popular beliefs that were deeply entrenched in the lives of their new audience. In spite of local variations...

... Thornhill has contributed to Westernlanguage scholarship on Muromachi Japan much more than just another study of an individual text or writer. Thornhill's unassuming title is misleading if it suggests that this volume is a study of Komparu Zenchiku (1405-ca. 1468-71), the important Noh dramatist...

... with tightly knit pre-Muromachi warrior and peasant organizations dedicated to selfpreservation and family-like continuity; its individuals were to "stake their lives" on their "places" {issho kenmei). In contrast to the ie, however, free associations of individuals on the basis of shared interests and tastes...

... STUDIES John W. Hall manages to be both concise and thorough in his treatment of it. He first presents the Ashikaga house, detailing the family's origins and emergence as national rulers of sorts, then describes the Muromachi bakufu's rule by geographical region, and outlines its bureaucratic, fiscal...

...). 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...

... through Muromachi to a series of weekend workshops in New Haven, leading to the first collection on the medieval in English {MedievalJapan; Essays in Institutional History, Yale 191A). Being "present at the beginning" is how those of us who were there now remember the experience, as a new field, under...

... of the Muromachi Bakufu. By KENNETH GROSSBERG and KANAMOTO NOBUHISA (trans Tokyo: Sophia University Press (Monumenta Nipponica Monograph No. 56), 1981. 171pp. $10. It is three-quarters of a century since the appearance of J. C. Hall's pioneering English translation of the Muromachi bakufu's basic law code...