Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital 9780824847845

Table of contents :
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Conventions and Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Heian-kyō: The Ideal
2. Heian-kyō: The Real
3. Making Kyoto Medieval: A Fractured, Privatized, and Pluralistic City
4. Rakuchū-Rakugai: Inside/Outside, Public/Private
5. Warriors in the Capital: The Ashikaga and the Classical Ideal
6. Warring States Kyoto: Erasing the Classical City
7. Castle-Town Kyoto
Epilogue: Bridge to the Modern
Notes
Character Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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