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Kenmu: Go-Daigo's Revolution (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
Kenmu GoDaigo's Revolution - Harvard East Asian Monographs Author:Andrew Edmund Goble The short-lived Kenmu regime (1333-1336) of Japanese Emperor Go-Daigo is often seen as an inevitably doomed, revanchist attempt to shore up the old aristocratic order. But far from resisting change, the flamboyant Go-Daigo and his iconoclastic associates were among the competitors seeking to overcome the old order and renegotiate its struct... more »ure and ethos. Their ultimate defeat did not automatically spell failure; rather, the revolutionary nature of their enterprise decisively moved Japan into its medieval age. Kenmu: Go-Daigo's Revolution tells this extraordinary personal story, reexamines original sources to discover the real nature of the Kenmu polity, and sets both within the broader backdrop of social, economic, and intellectual change at a dynamic moment in Japanese history. This monograph, number 169, is in the Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series of the Harvard Council on East Asian Studies, and is distributed by Harvard University Press.« less