Authorizing the Shogunate — Selinger Umbrellas grew up in Brunswick in

grew up in Brunswick in the 1960s

the book uses more than seventy first-hand accounts to bring the personal experiences of the soldiers to life

and then building

Calvin Bledsoe’s journey begins with the death of his mother

and fueled by

Authorizing the Shogunate — Selinger Umbrellas grew up in Brunswick inBy Vyjayanthi Selinger Associate Professor of Asian Studies The Genpei War of 1180 1185 signaled a crucial shift in Japanese history because it gave birth to the shogunate, or government run by warriors. How was the emergence of this new polity following a contentious civil war explained in literary texts? This book argues that political authority is made visible in the variant texts of the Heike monogatari corpus through ritual that map the ideal