Authorizing the Shogunate — Selinger Arctic Museum Three centuries ago

Three centuries ago

Money clip with engraved Bowdoin sun seal medallion

overwriting untidy historical realities

and visitors from around the world

the murders to come

Authorizing the Shogunate — Selinger Arctic Museum Three centuries agoBy Vyjayanthi Selinger Associate Professor of Asian Studies The Genpei War of 1180 1185 signaled a crucial shift in Japanese history because it gave birth to the shogunate, or government run by warriors. How was the emergence of this new polity following a contentious civil war explained in literary texts? This book argues that political authority is made visible in the variant texts of the Heike monogatari corpus through ritual that map the ideal