JAPAN 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Four Noble Truths, Genshin, Ippen
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Japan 50 notes - 1/22/18 - week 3 lecture 4. The imperial order centered around the capital (emperor and civilized men and women) The imperial order organized through values, etiquettes, religions shared in court in addition to bureaucratic system. Actual power was held by fujiwara clan in the mid heian period. As series of war and the rise of warriors. (pure land) buddhism as an alternative to the imperial view of the world: the era of cloistered emperors (1068-1160) late heian period. 1068 emperor go-sanjo accedes to throne (his mom was not daugther of fujiwara family) The emperor shirakawa (the son on go-sanjo) became the first cloistered emperor (retired emperor) withdraw into the buddhist monastic community makes his son the emperor and hold the political power attempts to control shoen system. Retired emperors become real power at court (has the most landholdings)
