Uncertain Powers: Sen'yōmon-In and Landownership by Royal Women in Early Medieval Japan Kawai Sachiko
Uncertain Powers: Sen'yōmon-In and Landownership by Royal Women in Early Medieval Japan Kawai Sachiko Uncertain Powers is an original and much-needed analysis of female leadership in medieval Japan.…
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Uncertain Powers: Sen'yōmon-In and Landownership by Royal Women in Early Medieval Japan Kawai Sachiko
Uncertain Powers is an original and much-needed analysis of female leadership in medieval Japan. Instead the author populates it with royal wives and daughters who held the title of premier royal lady (nyoin) and owned estates across the Japanese archipelago. In challenging current scholarship by exploring the important political and economic roles of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Japanese royal women, Sachiko Kawai questions the traditional view of the era as one dominated by male, retired monarchs and a warrior government.
Confronted with social factors and gender disparities, they were motivated to develop coping strategies, the workings of which Nyoin, whose power varied according to marital status, networks, and age, used their wealth and human networks to build temples and organize their entourages to assert religious, cultural, and political influence.