Images of Akutô
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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.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Monumenta Nipponica |
Volume | 60/2 |
Issue number | 2005/60:2 |
Pages (from-to) | 235-262 |
ISSN | 0027-0741 |
Publication status | Published - 2005 |
- Faculty of Humanities - Japan - history, Kamakura, banditry, akuto, medieval history
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