Canadian Journal of History, December 1st, 1999
The Clear Mirror: A Chronicle of the Japanese Court During the Kamakura Period (1185-1333), edited and translated by George W. Perkins. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1998. xiv, 342 pp. $49.50 U.S.
The Clear Mirror is an anonymous history, probably written by a court noble in the late fourteenth century. Its pages traverse events from 1180 until the end of Japan's first Shogunal administration, that of the Minamoto. While the starting point of this narrative is often taken as a point of departure for the eventual rise of warrior government, this is not a history of that gr...
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