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Post by Otagiri Tatsuzou on Oct 1, 2004 23:59:43 GMT -5
If 'bakufu' means 'tent government,' then where are the tents? What did they look like?
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Post by Yamamori Corrius on Oct 3, 2004 18:54:47 GMT -5
"Tent" as opposed to "Beautiful palaces staffed by hundreds of servants in pretty clothes and generally lacking in manly virtue" is what I'm given to understand. The Genji Shogun wanted to distance himself from the previous warlords, whose corruption was seen by the rural warriors as the result of their soft living in the Imperial capital.
Thus a nice, militant name for the dictatorship. The generals later commanded from their camp-curtained & sometimes tented field headquarters, and in the days of the Gempei War they would have at least had some sort of pre-battle session, I believe, so this sounds like the Shogun is commanding from a battlefield.
So it seems to me.
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Post by AJBryant on Oct 4, 2004 20:43:59 GMT -5
It's usually translated "tent" but it literally is "curtain" -- specifically, the curtains surrounding a military headquarters. The implication is that its a mobile headquarters of warriors rather than a static bureaucracy. Of course, that has nothing to do with reality.  Tony |
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