Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. List of Maps xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Maps 1
7. Introduction 7
8. Chapter 1. The Sengoku Daimyo and the Kandaka System 27
9. Chapter 2. The Sengoku Daimyo of Western Japan: The Case of the Ōuchi 64
10. Chapter 3. The Development of Sengoku Law 101
11. Chapter 4. Sengoku Daimyo Rule and Commerce 125
12. Chapter 5. The Political Posture of Oda Nobunaga 149
13. Chapter 6. Hideyoshi’s Domestic Policies 194
14. Chapter 7. The Commercial and Urban Policies of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi 224
15. Chapter 8. Shogun and Tennō 248
16. Chapter 9. The Changing Rationale of Daimyo Control in the Emergence of the Bakuhan State 271
17. Chapter 10. Dimensions of Development: Cities in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth- Century Japan 295
18. Chapter 11. Returns on Unification: Economic Growth in Japan, 1550–1650 327
19. Glossary 373
20. Notes on Contributors 383
21. Index 387
22. Backmatter 401