Lessons From History: The Tokushi Yoron Tokushi Yoron. English

By Arai Hakuseki ; Translation & Commentary By Joyce Ackroyd. Translation Of: Tokushi Yoron. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [391]-394. Acknowledgements Contents Introduction The Author Historical Works Precursors Periodization Interpretive History Assessment as a Historian Summing Up Note on Translation Book One First Change: The Beginnings of the Period of Child Rulers and Sessho and The Institution by the Fujiwara of a Family Academy Second Change: The Origin of the Office of Kampaku and of the Deposition of the Emperor The Administration of the Three Emperors Uda, Daigo, and Murakami without a Sessho or Kampaku, with The Incident of Kanjosho Third Change: The Arbitrary Rule of the Members of the Sesshö’s House for a Space of Eight Generations from Reizei on, with the Beginning of Calling Emperors after their Palaces Fourth Change: The Emperor Go-Sanjo Restrains the Power of the Sessho Fifth Change: The Administration of Retired Emperors Sixth Change: Control of the Empire by the Minamoto Shoguns Seventh Change: The Hojo as Sub-Vassals Control the Government for Nine Generations, with The Division of the Imperial Line and the Establishment of the Five Branches of the Sessho House Eighth Change: The Restoration of Imperial Rule under Go-Daigo Ninth Change: The Division of the Southern and Northern Courts Book Two How in Ancient Times the Emperor Had Charge of Military Operations How, from the Middle Ages on, the Office of Commander-General Became Hereditary The Three Ages of Minamoto Yoritomo and His Sons The Hereditary Control of the Empire by the Hojo The Administration under the Restoration of Go-Daigo Book Three The Establishment of the Emperor of the Northern Court by Ashikaga Takauji and the Shogunate of the Successive Generations of the Muromachi [Ashikagaj House The Administration of Oda Nobunaga from the First till the Tenth Year of Tensho (1573-02] The Supremacy of Toyotomi Hideyoshi Appendix 1: Manuscripts Appendix 2: Inscriptions on Manuscripts and Excerpt from Letter to Sakuma Dogan Appendix 3: Sources Appendix 4: Author’s Bibliography Appendix 5: Historical Survey Appendix 6: Antiquities Notes Bibliography Tables Maps and Plans Index