Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments IX
3. Table of Contents XI
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Court and Military in the Early Kamakura Period 4
6. II. Decline of the Kamakura Shogunate and Dispute over Imperial Succession 39
7. III. The Kemmu Restoration, 1333–1336 66
8. IV. Kitabatake Chikafusa and the Cause of the Southern Court 95
9. V. Changing Views of the Past 124
10. VI. History Revised 156
11. Concluding Remarks 184
12. Appendix 1. Imperial Chronology to 1392 189
13. Appendix 2. Chikafusa’s Imperial Chronology 191
14. Appendix 3. The Japanese Imperial Regalia 194
15. Appendix 4. Imperial Restoration 196
16. Glossary 199
17. Bibliography 205
18. Index 211