clan-lordships

Updated: May 28, 2025

Secondly, this period is all-important because it saw the first complete integration of the ancient social system, the definitive union of all the clan-lordships under a central military government. And lastly, the period is of special interest because the incident of the first attempt to christianize Japan the story of the rise and fall of the Jesuit power properly belongs to it.

Lafcadio Hearn - Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation