Asakawa Kan’ichi: The Taika Reforms (645-701 CE)

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 In this blog, I will attempt to extract essential parts of Asakawa’s book [1].


Fig. Fujiwara no Kamatari
This picture was drawn by Kikuchi Yosai（菊池容斎）who was a painter in Japan. Fujiwara no Kamatari (藤原鎌足）was father of Fujiwara no Fuhito (不比等). He was a Japanese politician too.
author: Kikuchi Yosai
This is in the public domain.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fujiwara-Kamatari.jpg





Fig. Prince Shotoku.

Wikipedia site:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Umayado_Miko.jpg

This is in the public domain.





Asakawa Kan’ichi (1873 –1948) was a Professor of History at Yale, peace advocate, and a curator at Yale Library. He was born in Japan as the son of a samurai, however, he spent most of his time in America.


Fig. Asakawa Kan’ichi

"Kan'ichi Asakawa Papers (MS 40). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library."

https://japanesehistory.yale.edu/about

[1] Asakawa, K., “The early institutional life of Japan : A study in the Reforms of 645 AD”, second edition, Paragon Book Reprint Corp. New York, 1963. Originally Yale University Press, 1903.

 


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