William Wayne Farris
Biographic Data
| ID | 512470 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Wayne Farris |
| GIVEN NAMES | William Wayne |
| FAMILY NAME | Farris |
| SIGNATURE | FARRIS W W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Japan's Most Mysterious Pestilence: Hypotheses on the Morphology of "Coughing Sickness" from the Ninth to Fifteenth Centuries and Potential Connections to Plague
Coughing sickness, known as gaibyô , constitutes Japan's most mysterious pestilence. According to materia medica of the tenth and fourteenth centuries, symptoms included coughing, fever, headaches, hemoptysis, and the production of drivel. This analysis of the available historical sources indicates that coughing sickness comprised many different diseases, and that epidemics occurred during 862–923, 993–1150, and 1228–1408. In the first period, co…
A Bowl for a Coin: A Commodity History of Japanese Tea
A Bowl for a Coin is the first book in any language to describe and analyze the history of all Japanese teas. To understand the triumph of the tea plant in Japan, Wayne Farris begins with its cultivation and goes on to describe the myriad ways in which the herb was processed into a palatable beverage. Along the way, he traces the shift in tea's status from exotic gift item from China to its complete nativization in Edo (1603-1868) art and literat…
Japan's Medieval Population: Famine, Fertility, and Warfare in a Transformative Age
This volume charts a course through never-before-surveyed historical territory: Japan’s medieval population, a topic so challenging that neither Japanese nor foreign scholars have investigated it in a comprehensive way. And yet, demography is an invaluable approach to the past because it provides a way—often the only way—to study the mass of people who did not belong to the political or religious elite. By synthesizing a vast cache of primary and…
Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures: Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan
The Japanese have long sought inspiration and legitimacy from the written record of their ancient past. The shaping of bygone eras to contemporary agendas began at least by the early eighth century, when the first court histories, namely the Kojiki and the Nihon shoki, were compiled.Since the late nineteenth century, historians have extensively mined these texts and other written evidence and by the late 1970s had nearly exhausted their meager so…
Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History
This book surveys Japanese historical development from the first evidence of human habitation in the archipelago to the consolidation of political power under the Tokugawa shogunate at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Its focus is on developments that impacted all social classes rather than the privileged and powerful few. The book weaves together major economic and social themes. It focuses on continuity and change in social and economi…
Daily Life and Demographics in Ancient Japan
For centuries, scholars have wondered what daily life was like for the common people of Japan, especially for long bygone eras such as the ancient age (700–1150). Using the discipline of historical demography, William Wayne Farris shows that for most of this era, Japan's overall population hardly grew at all, hovering around six million for almost five hundred years. The reasons for the stable population were complex. Most importantly, Japan was …
Shipbuilding and Nautical Technology in Japanese Maritime History: Origins to 1600
The Lost Wolves of Japan (review)
Reviewed by: The Lost Wolves of Japan W. Wayne Farris (bio) The Lost Wolves of Japan. By Brett L. Walker. University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2005. xix, 331 pages. $35.00. Over the past two decades, ecological history has secured a more prominent place in studies of Japan. This trend has been beneficial as it has helped to illuminate the context within which the human community lived and developed. Brett L. Walker's The Lost Wolves of Japan …
Pieces in a Puzzle: Changing Approaches to the Shōsōin Documents
Pieces in a Puzzle Changing Approaches to the Shōsōin Documents W. Wayne Farris (bio) For two weeks every autumn the Nara National Museum is a madhouse swarming with uniformed high school students, antiquarians, elderly couples in awe of the imperial family, and a few curious foreigners. The event is the annual exhibition of imperial possessions stored for over a thousand years in one of the world's oldest wooden repositories—the Treasure House (…
Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures: Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan
Hiraizumi: Buddhist Art and Regional Politics in Twelfth Century Japan
Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures: Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan
Trade, Money, and Merchants in Nara Japan
IGHTH-CENTURY Nara was a magnificent city. Even conservative estimates of its population, ranging from seventy thousand to one hundred thouJ..J _sand, make Japan's most famous Chinese-style capital one of the world's great urban centers.' Nara (also known as Heijo) contained a spacious palace compound over one square kilometer in area filled with tiled office buildings and thatched mansions. Outside the palace walls in the city proper lived large…
Ancient Japan's Korean Connection
This article analyzes relations among the peoples of the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago between A.D. 350 and 700 from an archaeological perspective. Until recently, the international academic community was divided between those who advocated the "horserider theory" and those who argued that the Japanese court (located in the Kinai) controlled the three southern Korean states of Kaya, Paekche, and Shilla between 350 and 562. This wo…
The "Emergence of the Samurai" and The Military History of Early Japan
The Modern Epidemic: A History of Tuberculosis in Japan
The Modern Epidemic: A History of Tuberculosis in Japan by William Johnston
856 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE technological points, such as assertions that the tunnel could be de stroyed by enemy action, are similarly unframed by references to contemporary technology. (Moreover, few of the illustrations pro vide any insight into technical matters.) Thus we have a book dealing with quite sophisticated technologies that provides the reader virtu ally no historical context for them. Read as an adjunct to other work…
Population, Disease, and Land in Early Japan, 645–900
Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japan's Military, 500-1300
Reply to Wayne Farris' Review
Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japan's Military, 500-1300
Nara economic and social institutions
During the fifty years that followed the Great Reforms of 645, Japan's central government enacted laws and established bureaucratic procedures (strongly Chinese in character) that were meant to strengthen its control over, and increase its revenue from, the country's land and people. Scholars agree that these arrangements, commonly referred to as the ritsuryō (penal and administrative law) system, were closely intertwined with economic and social…
Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japan's Military, 500-1300
a government, military matters are the essential thing, said Japan's Heavenly Warrior, the Emperor Temmu, in 684. In the West, however, the story of the origins and development of Japan's warrior class has remained largely untold. Misled by analogies to European knighthood, Western and late 19th-century Japanese scholarship wrongly assumed a feudal origin for the samurai and interpreted their place in Japanese history accordingly. Now, with Heave…
Political Thought in Japanese Historical Writing: From Kojiki (712) to Tokushi Yoron (1712)
Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey
Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japan's Military, 500-1300
a government, military matters are the essential thing, said Japan's Heavenly Warrior, the Emperor Temmu, in 684. In the West, however, the story of the origins and development of Japan's warrior class has remained largely untold. Misled by analogies to European knighthood, Western and late 19th-century Japanese scholarship wrongly assumed a feudal origin for the samurai and interpreted their place in Japanese history accordingly. Now, with Heave…
Population, Disease, and Land in Early Japan, 645-900
W. Wayne Farris has developed the first systematic analysis of early Japanese population, the role of disease in economic development, and the impact of agricultural technology and practices. In doing so, he reinterprets the nature of ritsury institutions
Shipbuilding and Nautical Technology in Japanese Maritime History: Origins to 1600
Political Thought in Japanese Historical Writing: From Kojiki (712) to Tokushi Yoron (1712)
Court and Bakufu in Japan. Essays in Kamakura History
Japan Before Tokugawa. POlitical Consolidation and Economic Growth, 1500 to 1650
These papers by leading specialists on sixteenth-century Japan explore Japan's transition from medieval (Chusei) to early modern (Kinsei) society. During this time, regional lords (daimyo) first battled for local autonomy and then for national supremacy.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Prince…
Japan's Renaissance. The Politics of the Muromachi Bakufu
Population, Disease, and Land in Early Japan, 645-900
Population, Disease, and Land in Early Japan, 645-900
W. Wayne Farris has developed the first systematic analysis of early Japanese population, the role of disease in economic development, and the impact of agricultural technology and practices. In doing so, he reinterprets the nature of ritsury institutions
Population, Disease, and Land in Early Japan, 645-900
Lordship and Inheritance in Early Medieval Japan: A Study of the Kamakura Soryo System
Political Thought in Japanese Historical Writing: From Kojiki (712) to Tokushi Yoron (1712)
Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey
Nara economic and social institutions
During the fifty years that followed the Great Reforms of 645, Japan's central government enacted laws and established bureaucratic procedures (strongly Chinese in character) that were meant to strengthen its control over, and increase its revenue from, the country's land and people. Scholars agree that these arrangements, commonly referred to as the ritsuryō (penal and administrative law) system, were closely intertwined with economic and social…
Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japan's Military, 500-1300
a government, military matters are the essential thing, said Japan's Heavenly Warrior, the Emperor Temmu, in 684. In the West, however, the story of the origins and development of Japan's warrior class has remained largely untold. Misled by analogies to European knighthood, Western and late 19th-century Japanese scholarship wrongly assumed a feudal origin for the samurai and interpreted their place in Japanese history accordingly. Now, with Heave…
Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japan's Military, 500-1300
Reply to Wayne Farris' Review
Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japan's Military, 500-1300
Population, Disease, and Land in Early Japan, 645–900
Ancient Japan's Korean Connection
This article analyzes relations among the peoples of the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago between A.D. 350 and 700 from an archaeological perspective. Until recently, the international academic community was divided between those who advocated the "horserider theory" and those who argued that the Japanese court (located in the Kinai) controlled the three southern Korean states of Kaya, Paekche, and Shilla between 350 and 562. This wo…
The "Emergence of the Samurai" and The Military History of Early Japan
The Modern Epidemic: A History of Tuberculosis in Japan
The Modern Epidemic: A History of Tuberculosis in Japan by William Johnston
856 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE technological points, such as assertions that the tunnel could be de stroyed by enemy action, are similarly unframed by references to contemporary technology. (Moreover, few of the illustrations pro vide any insight into technical matters.) Thus we have a book dealing with quite sophisticated technologies that provides the reader virtu ally no historical context for them. Read as an adjunct to other work…
Trade, Money, and Merchants in Nara Japan
IGHTH-CENTURY Nara was a magnificent city. Even conservative estimates of its population, ranging from seventy thousand to one hundred thouJ..J _sand, make Japan's most famous Chinese-style capital one of the world's great urban centers.' Nara (also known as Heijo) contained a spacious palace compound over one square kilometer in area filled with tiled office buildings and thatched mansions. Outside the palace walls in the city proper lived large…
Hiraizumi: Buddhist Art and Regional Politics in Twelfth Century Japan
Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures: Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan
Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures: Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan
Pieces in a Puzzle: Changing Approaches to the Shōsōin Documents
Pieces in a Puzzle Changing Approaches to the Shōsōin Documents W. Wayne Farris (bio) For two weeks every autumn the Nara National Museum is a madhouse swarming with uniformed high school students, antiquarians, elderly couples in awe of the imperial family, and a few curious foreigners. The event is the annual exhibition of imperial possessions stored for over a thousand years in one of the world's oldest wooden repositories—the Treasure House (…
The Lost Wolves of Japan (review)
Reviewed by: The Lost Wolves of Japan W. Wayne Farris (bio) The Lost Wolves of Japan. By Brett L. Walker. University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2005. xix, 331 pages. $35.00. Over the past two decades, ecological history has secured a more prominent place in studies of Japan. This trend has been beneficial as it has helped to illuminate the context within which the human community lived and developed. Brett L. Walker's The Lost Wolves of Japan …
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