The Emergence of Japanese Kingship by Joan R. Piggott
The Emergence of Japanese Kingship

Joan R. Piggott

The Emergence of Japanese Kingship

Joan R. Piggott

434 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction adventurous informative medium-paced
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The book culminates in an account of the reign of the mid-eighth-century monarch Shomu, who represented the zenith of classical Japanese kingship and was supported by a bureaucracy of more than 7,000 people. Shomu’s opulent Chinese-style palace a...

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