KAMAKURA - RISE AND FALL OF THE SHOGUNS Episode 4.
A Medieval History of Japan.
Episode 4: SUNSET OF THE SHOGUNS - Kamakura's decline. Kamakura in the later medieval and early modern periods.
In the final episode of this documentary series, we look at the fall of the Kamakura shogunate, the rise and fall of later Japanese shogunates, their effect on Kamakura, and Kamakura's effect on them.
Power ebbed away from Kamakura in the 14th and 15th centuries, yet all subsequent would-be shoguns, warlords, and politicians right up to the present day who desired control of Japan would still claim legitimacy through their connections, real or imagined with the Minamoto shoguns.
In addition to evaluating the political legacy of the Kamakura Shogunate, we look at how Zen Buddhism, and other forms of Kamakura Buddhism sowed the seeds of the enduring spiritual and cultural traditions of Japan, which are still promoted by people of the city and beyond.
Music.
Ross Bugden - Skies/Flight Hymn/Olympus.
Alphaville - Big in Japan (Album Version Intro).
Eric Taylor - Shoulder Angel/Traditional Japanese 1&2/Ancient Civilizations. (EricTaylorMusic.com).
Provocateurs - Dogfight.
Doug Maxwell & Zac Singer - Hon_Kyoku.
John Dowland - Fortune My Foe.
Saya Asakura - River Boat Song (Acapella).
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was one of the (usually) hereditary military dictators of Japan from 1192 to 1867. In this period, the shōguns, or their shikken regents (1203--1333), were the de facto rulers of Japan though they were nominally appointed by the emperor. When Portuguese explorers first came into contact with the Japanese (see Nanban period), they described Japanese conditions in analogy, likening the emperor, with great symbolic authority but little political power, to the Pope, and the shōgun to secular European rulers, e.g. the King of Spain. In keeping with the analogy, they even used the term emperor in reference to the shōgun/regent, e.g. in the case of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, whom missionaries called Emperor Taicosama (from Taiko and the honorific sama).