Imperial Court in Kyoto

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Short description: Nominal government of Japan from 794 to the late 19th century; true power held by shoguns

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Front view of Kyoto Imperial Palace

The Imperial Court in Kyoto was the nominal ruling government of Japan from 794 AD until the Meiji period (1868–1912), after which the court was moved from Kyoto (formerly Heian-kyō) to Tokyo (formerly Edo) and integrated into the Meiji government.[1] Upon the court being moved to Kyoto from Nagaoka by Emperor Kanmu (737–806),[2] the struggles for power regarding the throne that had characterized the Nara period diminished.[1] Kyoto was selected as the location for the court because of its "proper" amount of rivers and mountains which were believed to be the most auspicious surroundings for the new capital.[1] The capital itself was built in imitation of Chang'an, the Chinese capital of the Tang dynasty, closely following the theories of yin-yang.[1] The most prominent group of people within the court was the civil aristocracy (kuge) which was the ruling class of society that exercised power on behalf of the emperor.[3]

Kyoto's identity as a political, economic, and cultural centre started to be challenged in the post-1185 era with the rise of the shogunate system which gradually seized governance from the emperor.[2] Minamoto no Yoritomo was the first to establish the post of the shōgun as hereditary, receiving the title in 1192.[4] After Yoritomo launched the shogunate, true political power was in the hand of the shōguns, who were mistaken several times for the emperors of Japan by representatives of Western countries. The Kamakura shogunate (or Kamakura bakufu) would go on to last for almost 150 years, from 1185 to 1333.[4]

## See also

* Five regent houses
* Heian Palace
* Kyoto Gosho

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Tiedemann, Arthur (2002) (in en). Sources of Japanese Tradition (2 ed.). Columbia University Press. pp. 66–123. ISBN 9780231121392.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tseng, Alice Y. (2012). "The Retirement of Kyoto as Imperial Capital" (in en). The Court Historian 17 (2): 209–223. doi:10.1179/cou.2012.17.2.005. ISSN 1462-9712. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/cou.2012.17.2.005.
3. ↑ Lau, Wai (2022), Lau, Wai, ed., "Scenes of Life in the Imperial Court Society in Kyoto" (in en), On the Process of Civilisation in Japan: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations, Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias (Cham: Springer International Publishing): pp. 185–215, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-11424-3_12, ISBN 978-3-031-11424-3, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11424-3_12
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Goble, Andrew Edmund (2018-04-19). "The Kamakura Shogunate and the Beginnings of Warrior Power" (in en). Japan Emerging. pp. 189–199. doi:10.4324/9780429499531-20. ISBN 9780429499531. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429499531-20/kamakura-shogunate-beginnings-warrior-power-andrew-edmund-goble.

## Further reading

* Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982). [ Arai Hakuseki, 1712] Tokushi Yoron; "Lessons from History: the Tokushi yoron" translated by Joynce Ackroyd. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. ISBN 0-7022-1485-X
* Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist. Asai T. (1985). Nyokan Tūkai. Tokyo: Kōdansha.
* Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida, eds. (1979). [ Jien, c. 1220], Gukanshō; "The Future and the Past: a translation and study of the 'Gukanshō', an interpretive history of Japan written in 1219" translated from the Japanese and edited by Delmer M. Brown & Ichirō Ishida. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03460-0
* Ozaki, Yukio. (2001). The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Japan. [Translated by Fujiko Hara]. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-05095-3 (cloth)
* Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist. Ozaki, Yukio. (1955). Ozak Gakudō Zenshū. Tokyo: Kōronsha.
* Sansom, George (1958). A History of Japan to 1334. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-0523-2
* Sansom, George. (1952). Japan: A Short Cultural History. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-0952-1 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-8047-0954-5 (paper)
* Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822. London: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 0-7007-1720-X
* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland....Click link to digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French)
* Ury, Marian. (1999). "Chinese Learning and Intellectual Life", The Cambridge history of Japan: Heian Japan. Vol. II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-22353-9 (cloth)
* Varley, H. Paul, ed. (1980). [ Kitabatake Chikafusa, 1359], Jinnō Shōtōki ("A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa" translated by H. Paul Varley). New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-04940-4

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