ABSTRACT

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

chapter I|10 pages

Conditions of Life in the Early Periods

chapter II|9 pages

Reformation of Taika

chapter IV|6 pages

Land System Prior to the Taika Reforms

chapter V|17 pages

Land System in the Statutes of Taiho

chapter VI|16 pages

The Period of Slave Economy

chapter VII|12 pages

NARA AGE

chapter VIII|16 pages

Temples Establish a State Within the State

chapter IX|20 pages

Early Phase of the Heian Dynasty

chapter X|22 pages

The Age of the Manorial System

chapter XI|15 pages

Decay of the Fujiwara Clan

chapter XII|8 pages

Rise and Fall of Taira and Minamoto Clans

chapter XIV|12 pages

Jito System in Minamoto and Hojo Regimes

chapter XV|18 pages

The Hojo Epoch

chapter XVI|9 pages

Outline of the Ashikaga Epoch

chapter XIX|36 pages

The Ashikaga Epoch

chapter XX|13 pages

The Arrival of the Portuguese

chapter XXII|11 pages

The Fall of the Ashikaga Clan

chapter XXIII|8 pages

Appearance of the Great Feudal Lords

chapter XXV|7 pages

Nobunaga the Destroyer

chapter XXVI|15 pages

The Ports of Sakai and Hakata, ETC.

chapter XXVIII|4 pages

Gold and Silver Coins in the Oda Age

chapter XXIX|30 pages

Unification by Hideyoshi

chapter XXX|14 pages

Distribution of Land in the Toyotomi Age

chapter XXXI|12 pages

Land Surveying by Hideyoshi

chapter XXXII|15 pages

Beginning of the Persecution of the Catholics

chapter XXXIII|24 pages

The Invasion of Korea

chapter XXXIV|24 pages

Japanese Expand Abroad

chapter XXXV|13 pages

Foundation of the Tokugawa Family

chapter XXXVI|19 pages

Beginning of the Edo Age

chapter XXXVII|6 pages

Early Phase of the Tokugawa Age

chapter XXXVIII|14 pages

Financial Basis of the Tokugawa Shogunate