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  • English-Language Studies of Medieval Japan: An Assessment

  • Conrad Totman
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Asian Studies / Volume 38 / Issue 3 / May 1979
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    23 March 2011, pp. 541-551
    Print publication:
    May 1979

  • 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 period, ca. A.D. 1100 to 1600. I do not intend to evaluate the works as individual monographs, but rather to consider their larger cumulative historiographical significance. After summarizing the main interpretive constructs used by scholars writing in English I will discuss ways in which the recent works have and have not enriched these constructs or suggested helpful new ones.

  • Fudai Daimyo and the Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu

  • Conrad Totman
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Asian Studies / Volume 34 / Issue 3 / May 1975
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    23 March 2011, pp. 581-591
    Print publication:
    May 1975

  • In Treasures among Men; the Fudai Daimyo in Tokugawa Japan (Yale, 1974), Harold Bolitho has discussed the role of the fudai daimyo in the functioning and collapse of the Tokugawa polity, arguing in fine that their conduct during the 1860's was dictated by their concern for the security of their han. This concern, he argues, led them to refuse to assist the bakufu even in its moment of supreme crisis. He sees this outcome as the final expression of an enduring situation in which the interests of fudai daimyo were in permanent conflict with the interests of the bakufu.