Uncertain Powers: Sen'yōmon-In and Landownership by Royal Women in Early Medieval Japan

by Sachiko Kawai

Uncertain Powers is an original and much-needed analysis of female leadership in medieval Japan. In challenging current scholarship by exploring the important political and economic roles of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Japanese royal women, Sachiko Kawai questions the traditional view of the era as one dominated by male retired monarchs and a warrior government. Instead the author populates it with royal wives and daughters who held...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674260163
• ISBN13: 9780674260160
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 382 Pages