War and Faith: Ikko Ikki in Late Muromachi Japan

by Carol Richmond Tsang

During the sengoku era--the period of "warring provinces" in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Japan--warlords vied for supremacy and sought to expand their influence over the realm. Powerful religious institutions also asserted their military might by calling upon their adherents to do battle against forces that threatened their spiritual and secular interests.

The Honganji branch of Jodo Shinshu (True Pure Land Sect) Buddhism was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674025091
• ISBN13: 9780674025097
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 9.2"