Joan R Piggott

Biographic Data

ID704138
NAMEJoan R Piggott
GIVEN NAMESJoan R
FAMILY NAMEPiggott
SIGNATUREPIGGOTT J R
AFFILIATIONSMiyoshi Kasei (Japan)
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX1

  • Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan

    Janet R Goodwin, Joan R Piggott et al.BOOKLand, Power, and the Sacred2018

    Landed estates (shōen) produced much of the material wealth supporting all levels of late classical and medieval Japanese society. During the tenth through sixteenth centuries, estates served as sites of de facto government, trade network nodes, developing agricultural technology, and centers of religious practice and ritual. Although mostly farmland, many yielded nonagricultural products, including lumber, salt, fish, and silk, and provided live…

  • Selections from the Taiheiki: The Chronicle of Great Peace

    Open AccessKyoko Selden, Joan Piggott et al.ARTICLEJapan focus2016

    After Ashikaga Tadayoshi (1306-52), Chief of the Royal Left Stable, had passed Yamanouchi, he summoned Fuchibe, provincial Governor of Iga, and said to him, "We have withdrawn from Kamakura due to lack of troops, but if we raise enough troops in Mino, Owari, Mikawa, and Tōtōmi, and, if we then quickly attack Kamakura, we can destroy Sagami Jirō Tokiyuki easily. But Prince Moriyoshi (1308-35) will always be an enemy of the Ashikaga family. Althoug…

  • Introduction to the Taiheiki: The Chronicle of Great Peace

    Open AccessJoan Piggott, Joan R PiggottARTICLEJapan focus2016

    Helen McCullough translated and published the first twelve chapters of the medieval military chronicle Taiheiki, The Chronicle of Great Peace, in 1979. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Kyoko Selden and I, then colleagues on the faculty of Cornell University, began meeting weekly to read, discuss, and translate a broad range of Japanese historical texts, including sections of the Taiheiki through Chapter 19 (out of forty). Our short-term objecti…

  • Tsumi \-\- Offence and Retribution in Early Japan (review)

    Joan R PiggottARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2007

    Reviewed by: Tsumi-Offence and Retribution in Early Japan Joan R. Piggott (bio) Tsumi-Offence and Retribution in Early Japan. By Yoko Williams. Routledge, London, 2003. x, 230 pages. $114.95. In Tsumi—Offence and Retribution in Early Japan, Yoko Williams traces the development of tsumi, which she defines as a concept of social offense, across five centuries. She sees tsumi as a social construct that developed in tandem with the institution of kin…

  • Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan

    Joan R Piggott, Dorothy Ko et al.BOOKWomen and Confucian Cultures in…2003

    Representing an unprecedented collaboration among international scholars from Asia, Europe, and the United States, this volume rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between Confucianism and women. The authors discuss the absence of women in the Confucian canonical tradition and examine the presence of women in politics, family, education, and art in premodern China, Korea, and Japan. What emerges is a concep…

  • The Lucky Seventh: Early Horyu-ji and Its Time

    Joan R Piggott, J Edward KidderARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2002

  • The Emergence of Japanese Kingship

    I J Mcmullen, Joan R PiggottARTICLEHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies1999

  • The Emergence of Japanese Kingship

    R Pearson, Joan R PiggottARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1999

    This is the first comprehensive study of the sources and nature of classical Japanese and state formation. To draw new insights from the rich body of extant documents and artifacts from early Japan, the author employs the analytical tools of recent Western historiography and anthropology, constructing an archeology of kingship that begins by exposing the roots of Japanese monarchy in third-century chieftaincy. The book then traces sovereignty and…

  • The Emergence of Japanese Kingship

    Harold Bolitho, Joan R PiggottARTICLEThe American Historical Review1998Cited by: 3

  • The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 1: Ancient Japan

    Joan R Piggott, Delmer M Brown et al.ARTICLEHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies1996

  • Mokkan. Wooden Documents from the Nara Period

    Joan R PiggottARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1990Cited by: 1

    A propos de quatre series de mokkan, lattes de bois inscrites, recemment mises au jour a Nara et dont l'etude permet l'identification du site et leurs fonctions (datation, calligraphie), donne des precisions sur la vie politique, administrative, imperiale et quotidienne du 8 e siecle

  • Sacral Kingship and Confederacy in Early Izumo

    Joan R PiggottARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1989Cited by: 1

    A SERIES of startling archaeological discoveries in old Izumo province during the 1980s has changed our vision of how that region developed from Yayoi through early imperial times. Of particular interest is the way in which this new evidence is expanding our understanding of political organization and rulership in early Japan. Japan's early history as it is known in the West is largely Yamato-centered. That is hardly surprising, for the Yamato ar…

  • Keeping Up With the Past. New Discoveries Enrich Our Views of History

    Joan R PiggottARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1983

    M ] OST of the material on which historians base their research comes from published books, some new, some old. Even when the latest work on a subject is consulted, the contents usually reflect a state of knowledge that predates the book's publication by three to five years. Scholars in scientific fields do their best to handle this time-lag problem with frequently published journals and other means that rush the latest discoveries, insights, and…