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Japan Emerging
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Japan Emerging provides a comprehensive survey of Japan from prehistory to the nineteenth century. Incorporating the latest scholarship and methodology, leading
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-31 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Kyoto was Japan’s political and cultural capital for more than a millennium before the dawn of the modern era. Until about the fifteenth century, it was also
The Gates of Power
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Authors: Mikael S. Adolphson
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The political influence of temples in premodern Japan, most clearly manifested in divine demonstrations—where rowdy monks and shrine servants brought holy sym