Adachi and Amano: Local and National in the Wake of the Mongol Invasions of Japan
Please note the change of time and venue from other talks and as advertised on posters
Adachi Yasumori is famous for having been assassinated in the Shimotsuki Incident 1285, but this talk will examine the impact of his brief but significant programme of reform and his investment in Japan’s divine defences. Yasumori’s policies on national defence, religious institutions, and land were intertwined with national politics and the local context of his personal and familial involvement with Kōyasan and Amano. Long recognised for his connection to the esoteric centre at Kōyasan and the construction of milestones for the pilgrim route (the completion ceremony for which may have afforded his soon-to-be murderers the opportunity to prepare their coup) the effects of his religious policy and investment in Amano and Kōya had longer-term effects, setting in motion a forceful renegotiation of the relationships between temple and shrine and the leading families of the surrounding region, marking a key point in the transformation of the social and political order of Kii Province in the medieval period.
Date: 11 March 2025, 14:00
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room, All Souls College
Speaker: Dr Philip Garrett (Newcastle University)
Organisers: Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford), Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: ross.moncrieff@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Ross Moncrieff