Images of Akutô
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Images of Akutô. / Oxenbøll, Morten.
In: Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 60/2, No. 2005/60:2, 2005, p. 235-262.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Images of Akutô
AU - Oxenbøll, Morten
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - One of the primary objects of this paper has been to show how a so-called akutô was created, not on a local level by merchants or itinerant monks committing robbery and murder or by warriors or powerful peasants opposing a distant proprietor by violent means, but by the proprietor itself as part of a rhetorical strategy designed to provoke a certain response from the recipients of the complaints and suits. The appearance of the term in various documents in the thirteenth century does therefore not necessarily indicate that a special social grouping appeared in the estates in the central and western provinces at that time. It is rather a symbol of the troubles, which the proprietors faced in controlling their estates and the steady inflow of taxes and commodities from these estates.
AB - One of the primary objects of this paper has been to show how a so-called akutô was created, not on a local level by merchants or itinerant monks committing robbery and murder or by warriors or powerful peasants opposing a distant proprietor by violent means, but by the proprietor itself as part of a rhetorical strategy designed to provoke a certain response from the recipients of the complaints and suits. The appearance of the term in various documents in the thirteenth century does therefore not necessarily indicate that a special social grouping appeared in the estates in the central and western provinces at that time. It is rather a symbol of the troubles, which the proprietors faced in controlling their estates and the steady inflow of taxes and commodities from these estates.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Japan
KW - Kamakura
KW - banditvæsen
KW - akuto
KW - middelalderhistorie
KW - Japan - history
KW - Kamakura
KW - banditry
KW - akuto
KW - medieval history
M3 - Journal article
VL - 60/2
SP - 235
EP - 262
JO - Monumenta Nipponica
JF - Monumenta Nipponica
SN - 0027-0741
IS - 2005/60:2
ER -
ID: 68035