The Origins of Japan’s Medieval WorldThis pioneering collection of fifteen essays proposes to change the way we think about fourteenth century Japan and what preceded and followed it. Most notable is the search for Japans medieval beginnings, which are found not in the developments flowing from the establishment of the first shogunate in the 1180s, but rather in the shogunates collapse 150 years later. In this admittedly controversial interpretation, the Kamakura age becomes the final