Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 The Kamakura bakufu
- 2 Medieval shōen
- 3 The decline of the Kamakura bakufu
- 4 The Muromachi bakufu
- 5 Muromachi local government: shugo and kokujin
- 6 The decline of the shōen system
- 7 The medieval peasant
- 8 The growth of commerce in medieval Japan
- 9 Japan and East Asia
- 10 CULTURAL LIFE IN MEDIEVAL JAPAN
- 11 The other side of culture in medieval Japan
- 12 Buddhism in the Kamakura period
- 13 Zen and the gozan
- Works cited
- Glossary
- Index
- References
4 - The Muromachi bakufu
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 The Kamakura bakufu
- 2 Medieval shōen
- 3 The decline of the Kamakura bakufu
- 4 The Muromachi bakufu
- 5 Muromachi local government: shugo and kokujin
- 6 The decline of the shōen system
- 7 The medieval peasant
- 8 The growth of commerce in medieval Japan
- 9 Japan and East Asia
- 10 CULTURAL LIFE IN MEDIEVAL JAPAN
- 11 The other side of culture in medieval Japan
- 12 Buddhism in the Kamakura period
- 13 Zen and the gozan
- Works cited
- Glossary
- Index
- References
Summary
INTRODUCTION
The Muromachi bakufu, the second of the three military governments that held power in Japan from 1185 to 1867, was founded between 1336 and 1338 by Ashikaga Takauji (1305–58). The name Muromachi was taken from the district in Kyoto where the Ashikaga residence and administrative headquarters were located after 1378. The end of the regime is dated either 1573, when the last Ashikaga shogun was ousted from Kyoto, or 1597, when the ex-shogun died in exile.
The period in Japanese history defined by the existence of the Muromachi bakufu has been judged in two quite contradictory ways. Measured on the basis of effective centralized rule, it has been seen as a time of political weakness and social unrest. Yet in cultural terms it has been recognized as one of Japan's most creative periods of artistic achievement. There is, of course, no necessary contradiction between political instability and cultural brilliance. And modern historians have tended to play down the apparent paradox. They stress instead the significant social and institutional changes of the time: when military government (the bakufu system) came into its own, when the military aristocracy (the buke or samurai estate) became the real rulers of the country, and when profound changes were wrought in the distribution of rights over land and in the organization of the cultivating class. Recent assessments have suggested that even with respect to government effectiveness, the Ashikaga should not be dismissed too lightly. After all, the Muromachi bakufu lasted for more than two hundred years.
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