This week on the Revised Intro to Japanese History: the social, religious, and economic changes of the Sengoku period. Though this is an age of civil war, it’s also an age of tremendous growth and change, and one that will lay the groundwork of much to come in future centuries.
Sources
Keene, Donald. Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan
Hesselink, Reinier H. The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560-1640
Segal, Ethan, “Medieval Economy,” Laver, Michael, “Diplomacy, Piracy, and the Space Between: Japan and East Asia in the Medieval Period,” Chance, Linda, “Medieval Art and Aesthetics” in Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1850.
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