The Medieval Japanese Economy The Japanese enjoyed a growing economy during the medieval period. Markets began to develop around the country. These were often at crossroads or near rivers so that ...

Starting in the seventh century, as a centralized Japanese state began to take shape, Buddhist monks from the Korean Peninsula and present-day China brought healing practices to Japan.

Selinger is the 2024 recipient of the Bonnie Wheeler Fellowship, a fund established in 2011 to support the research of women medievalists with tenure with the aim of helping them on the road to full ...

As a scholar of Japanese literature and culture, Vyjayanthi Selinger may not be the first person you would associate with medieval studies. But a new fellowship underlines her important role in ...

Yet it still occupies a powerful place in the Japanese imagination. A popular TV drama, “Dear Radiance” – “Hikaru kimie” – is based on the life of its author, ... The tools in a medieval Japanese ...