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8 The court and its provinces: producing and distributing wealth in classical
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Peter D. Shapinsky
10 The imperial court in medieval Japan 157
Lee Butler
11 The sixteenth century: identifying a new group of “unifiers” and
reevaluating the myth of “reunification” 171
Jeff Kurashige
PART III
Society and culture 185
12 Religion in archaic Japan 187
William E. Deal
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Ijūin Yōko, with Sachiko Kawai
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Joan R. Piggott
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Mikaël Bauer
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William Wayne Farris
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Pierre F. Souyri
18 Family, women, and gender in medieval society 275
Hitomi Tonomura
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Janet R. Goodwin
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Kawai Yasushi, with Karl F. Friday