Hitomi Tonomura
Biographic Data
| ID | 299341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hitomi Tonomura |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hitomi |
| FAMILY NAME | Tonomura |
| SIGNATURE | TONOMURA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rethinking Japanese History
Coercive Sex in the Medieval Japanese Court
Coercive Sex in the Medieval Japanese Court:Lady Nijō's Memoir Hitomi Tonomura (bio) In 1271, the retired emperor Go-Fukakusa-in (1243-1304; r. 1246-1259) entered the room of Nijō (1258-after 1307), a female companion-protégée who was then fourteen years old, and forced himself upon her. "He handled me so mercilessly that my thin gown was being badly torn, and soon I would be left with nothing in this world, not even my name, as dawn came upon my…
Women and Class in Japanese History
Women and Class in Japanese History
Introduction Chieftain Pairs and Corulers Trousers: Status and Gender in Ancient Dress Codes Medieval Nuns and Nunneries The Medieval Household and Gender Roles Women's Work and Status in the Changing Medieval Economy Women's Associations and Religious Expression in the Medieval Japanese Village Sexual Violence Against Women Imagining Working Women in Early Modern Japan Prostitution and Public Authority in Early Modern Japan The Reproductive Revo…
Community and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan
Black Hair and Red Trousers
AT A TIME NOW PAST, Fujiwara Tamemoto was the governor of Shimotsuke Province. His house (in Kyoto, the capital) was located to the south of Third Street, to the west of the Western Palace. Around the end of the twelfth month (in about the year 1001), a thief entered this house. Because the neighbors shouted, the thief left without stealing much of anything. Fearing that he would be arrested, the thief abducted one of the ladies-in-waiting as a h…
Community and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan
Community and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan
Late medieval Japan witnessed a growth in the power of the commoner, as seen in the spread of corporate villages (so) marked by collective ownership and administration and other self-governing features. This study of a community of so villages in central Japan from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries reconstructs the life of these villages by analyzing the rich and abundant communal records largely written by the villagers themselves…
Community and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan
Late medieval Japan witnessed a growth in the power of the commoner, as seen in the spread of corporate villages (sō) marked by collective ownership and administration and other self-governing features. This study of a community of sō villages in central Japan from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries reconstructs the life of these villages by analyzing the rich and abundant communal records largely written by the villagers themselves…
Community and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan
Women and Inheritance in Japan's Early Warrior Society
In the second half of the Kamakura age (1190-1333), Japan's elite warrior society began to undergo a gradual but radical structural transformation. The outline of this change was the shift from a divided to a unitary inheritance practice, with a progressive consolidation of family property and authority into one 'chief' (sōryō), to the exclusion of his brothers and sisters. Kinship relations changed accordingly. As in the twelfth-century Mâcon de…
Forging the Past. Medieval Counterfeit Documents
ITUATED in the middle of Imabori-cho in Yokaichi-shi, Shiga prefecture, Imabori Hiyoshi Jinja + + Wjt, also called Hie Jinja, serves as the center of social and religious activities for local residents. Behind the altar of the shrine lies a carefully sealed cedar box containing a sacred document that has greatly influenced the course of events in that area since the fifteenth century and has come to bear a special significance for people living i…
Women and Inheritance in Japan's Early Warrior Society
In the second half of the Kamakura age (1190-1333), Japan's elite warrior society began to undergo a gradual but radical structural transformation. The outline of this change was the shift from a divided to a unitary inheritance practice, with a progressive consolidation of family property and authority into one 'chief' (sōryō), to the exclusion of his brothers and sisters. Kinship relations changed accordingly. As in the twelfth-century Mâcon de…
Forging the Past. Medieval Counterfeit Documents
ITUATED in the middle of Imabori-cho in Yokaichi-shi, Shiga prefecture, Imabori Hiyoshi Jinja + + Wjt, also called Hie Jinja, serves as the center of social and religious activities for local residents. Behind the altar of the shrine lies a carefully sealed cedar box containing a sacred document that has greatly influenced the course of events in that area since the fifteenth century and has come to bear a special significance for people living i…
Women and Inheritance in Japan's Early Warrior Society
In the second half of the Kamakura age (1190-1333), Japan's elite warrior society began to undergo a gradual but radical structural transformation. The outline of this change was the shift from a divided to a unitary inheritance practice, with a progressive consolidation of family property and authority into one 'chief' (sōryō), to the exclusion of his brothers and sisters. Kinship relations changed accordingly. As in the twelfth-century Mâcon de…
Community and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan
Late medieval Japan witnessed a growth in the power of the commoner, as seen in the spread of corporate villages (sō) marked by collective ownership and administration and other self-governing features. This study of a community of sō villages in central Japan from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries reconstructs the life of these villages by analyzing the rich and abundant communal records largely written by the villagers themselves…
Community and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan
Community and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan
Late medieval Japan witnessed a growth in the power of the commoner, as seen in the spread of corporate villages (so) marked by collective ownership and administration and other self-governing features. This study of a community of so villages in central Japan from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries reconstructs the life of these villages by analyzing the rich and abundant communal records largely written by the villagers themselves…
Black Hair and Red Trousers
AT A TIME NOW PAST, Fujiwara Tamemoto was the governor of Shimotsuke Province. His house (in Kyoto, the capital) was located to the south of Third Street, to the west of the Western Palace. Around the end of the twelfth month (in about the year 1001), a thief entered this house. Because the neighbors shouted, the thief left without stealing much of anything. Fearing that he would be arrested, the thief abducted one of the ladies-in-waiting as a h…
Community and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan
Community and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan
Women and Class in Japanese History
Introduction Chieftain Pairs and Corulers Trousers: Status and Gender in Ancient Dress Codes Medieval Nuns and Nunneries The Medieval Household and Gender Roles Women's Work and Status in the Changing Medieval Economy Women's Associations and Religious Expression in the Medieval Japanese Village Sexual Violence Against Women Imagining Working Women in Early Modern Japan Prostitution and Public Authority in Early Modern Japan The Reproductive Revo…
Women and Class in Japanese History
Coercive Sex in the Medieval Japanese Court
Coercive Sex in the Medieval Japanese Court:Lady Nijō's Memoir Hitomi Tonomura (bio) In 1271, the retired emperor Go-Fukakusa-in (1243-1304; r. 1246-1259) entered the room of Nijō (1258-after 1307), a female companion-protégée who was then fourteen years old, and forced himself upon her. "He handled me so mercilessly that my thin gown was being badly torn, and soon I would be left with nothing in this world, not even my name, as dawn came upon my…
Rethinking Japanese History
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