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The culture of civil war in Kyoto / Mary Elizabeth Berry.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: A Philip E. Lilienthal bookPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1994Description: 1 online resource (xxxii, 373 pages) : illustrations (some color), mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520919037
  • 0520919033
  • 0585111847
  • 9780585111841
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Culture of civil war in Kyoto.DDC classification:
  • 952/.186 20
LOC classification:
  • DS897.K857 B47 1994eb
Other classification:
  • K313. 3
  • 15.75
Online resources:
Contents:
1. The culture of lawlessness, the politics of demonstration. -- 2. dancing is forbidden: the structures of urban conflict. -- 3. Word wars: the refuge of the past. -- 4. Popular insurrection. -- 5. Work: the structures of daily life. -- 6. Neighborhood: the reconfiguration of attachment. -- 7. Play: the freedom of invention.
Summary: After 1467, war became commonplace in Japan. This book explores that commonplace--the everyday terrain of violence that men and women traced in their diaries, their suits and petitions, their marches and rebellions, their dancing. This is not a book about battles, causes, and resolutions. It is a book about the backwash of battle in a great city, the murkiness and volatility of purpose that marked ever new conflicts. It is about the absence of closure--the resistance to closure--in a long war that broke apart medieval attachments and identities to require fearsome trials with alternatives.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-363).

Print version record.

1. The culture of lawlessness, the politics of demonstration. -- 2. dancing is forbidden: the structures of urban conflict. -- 3. Word wars: the refuge of the past. -- 4. Popular insurrection. -- 5. Work: the structures of daily life. -- 6. Neighborhood: the reconfiguration of attachment. -- 7. Play: the freedom of invention.

After 1467, war became commonplace in Japan. This book explores that commonplace--the everyday terrain of violence that men and women traced in their diaries, their suits and petitions, their marches and rebellions, their dancing. This is not a book about battles, causes, and resolutions. It is a book about the backwash of battle in a great city, the murkiness and volatility of purpose that marked ever new conflicts. It is about the absence of closure--the resistance to closure--in a long war that broke apart medieval attachments and identities to require fearsome trials with alternatives.

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