Historiador brasileiro especializando-se em história do medievo japonês e leste-asiático, com profundo interesse pela história dos samurais, estratégias de legitimação, e literatura clássica (especialmente os épicos de guerra japoneses [gunkimonogatari]).
Brazilian historian specializing in Medieval Japanese and East Asian History, with deep interest for the history of the samurai, legitimation strategies, and classical literature (especially the Japanese war epics [gunkimonogatari]).
Estou postando aqui as duas primeiras aulas do minicurso que apresentei este ano no evento "Diálo... more Estou postando aqui as duas primeiras aulas do minicurso que apresentei este ano no evento "Diálogos Sobre História", por realização da UFPR. O minicurso completo encontra-se no canal do NEJAP, núcleo de estudos que coordeno, no YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV6hzUdvpAM&list=PLWwdC6P5smZYjiSy6BEeVuz4FpCrEX_wc
First two classes of a short course I gave here in Brazil regarding the shōen-kokugaryō system. English subtitles to be available on YouTube as soon as possible. The complete course is organized in a YouTube Playlist (link above) and available in Brazilian Portuguese.
Estou postando aqui as duas primeiras aulas do minicurso que apresentei este ano no evento "Diálo... more Estou postando aqui as duas primeiras aulas do minicurso que apresentei este ano no evento "Diálogos Sobre História", por realização da UFPR. O minicurso completo encontra-se no canal do NEJAP, núcleo de estudos que coordeno, no YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV6hzUdvpAM&list=PLWwdC6P5smZYjiSy6BEeVuz4FpCrEX_wc
First two classes of a short course I gave here in Brazil regarding the shōen-kokugaryō system. English subtitles to be available on YouTube as soon as possible. The complete course is organized in a YouTube Playlist (link above) and available in Brazilian Portuguese.
O Declínio e a Queda dos Soga - Usos Políticos do Clima e Astros no Nihon Shoki, 2023
Através da análise do episódio da queda dos Soga no Nihon Shoki (720 EC), este artigo mostra como... more Através da análise do episódio da queda dos Soga no Nihon Shoki (720 EC), este artigo mostra como fenômenos climáticos, astronômicos e de outras naturezas foram utilizados pelos redatores da crônica para justificar o golpe de 645 EC. Para isto, será analisada brevemente a trajetória dos Soga, o peso das concepções cosmológicas chinesas no Japão neste período, e o contexto de escrita do Nihon Shoki. Em seguida, os presságios serão estudados em detalhes, traçando um comparativo de seu grau de incidência frente aos três reinados anteriores e aos três reinados posteriores diante dos dois outros reinados onde localizam-se os episódios analisados – o cerne da ascensão e queda dos Soga. Feita esta análise quantitativa da incidência de ocorrências ominosas, o estudo procederá para uma análise exegética dos episódios, de modo a mobilizar argumentos que corroborem com a hipótese levantada.
Analyzing the Soga’s fall as described in the Nihon Shoki (720 CE), this article explores how the chronicle’s writers utilized climatic, astronomical, and other natural phenomena in justifying the coup d’etat of 645 CE, relating it to the Soga’s historical trajectory, the weight of the Chinese cosmological conceptions in Japan at that time, and the context in which the Nihon Shoki was written. The paper also examines the role of omens, comparing their incidence in the three preceding and the three succeeding reigns to the core of the rise and fall of the Soga. The paper concludes with an exegetic analysis of these episodes, seeking arguments that corroborate the hypotheses presented.
Os Samurais em Esboço: Uma análise dos Documentos Tannowa nos séculos XIII e XIV, 2021
The current study analyzes the documents of the Tannowa family, a warrior family which resided in... more The current study analyzes the documents of the Tannowa family, a warrior family which resided in Tannowa-no-shō, Izumi province, and seeks to undestand their path throughout the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In the pursuit of these goals, this study engages in a contextualist analysis of the primary sources, frequently bringing to the fore background matters that operated within the society, such as the model of familial organization and conveyance of property within the warrior families, the system of land administration, the political play between the Imperial Court and the bakufu, among other factors. As the study advances, we are confronted by the new realities of the fourteenth century, where the first bakufu is overthrown, the second one rises over its ashes, and a war of six decades proceeds, product of a schism within the imperial family. In such a background, autonomous warrior leaders (tōzama) seek to offer their services to those who can better reward them. Throughout this study, we see the Tannowa advancing through a series of steps, from their humble beginnings as mere officials under Tannowa-no-shō's proprietor to their ascension to tōzama status in the fourteenth century, alternating between the Northern and Southern Court and consolidating a firm base of regional power in Izumi, ending the century as provincial magnates known as kokujin ryōshu. Their history also allows a rare glimpse of the warriors under the Southern Court and presents faded familial conflicts, possibly pertaining to a part of their history that the compilers wished to forget.
(Dissertation paper for the title of Bachelor of Arts in History)
Multiple Obligations, Multiple Expectations: Loyalty, Service, Duty, and the Samurai of the Fourteenth Century, 2018
The Fourteenth Century Japan was marked by intense political instability and a legitimacy crisis ... more The Fourteenth Century Japan was marked by intense political instability and a legitimacy crisis that lasted half a century, in which two centers of power declared themselves simultaneously as legitimate – the Ashikaga bakufu and the Southern Court in Yoshino. In this context, warlords changed sides in a long civil war according to what was most favorable to them. This article seeks to examine up to what point the topoi of samurai loyalty was historically existent. Furthermore, it tries to make a general summary regarding the circulating ideas concerning loyalty, especially in the gunkimonogatari and buke kakun, as well as to trace a parallel between those ideas and the historical reality of the Japanese Middle Ages.
"Um Guerreiro Com o Valor de Mil Homens": O estamento guerreiro japonês no século XIV, 2024
ver a long period of time in its history, warfare in Japan was the special, although not exclusiv... more ver a long period of time in its history, warfare in Japan was the special, although not exclusive, perquisite of a specific group of men from certain families perceived as warrior houses (tsuwamono no ie, and later, buke). Its members, the warriors—tsuwamono, musha, bushi—are also largely known as samurai. During the fourteenth century, more than ever before, those warriors played a key role in the political and social history of Japan, ending with the domination by the bakufu of the Japanese Imperial bureaucratic machinery in the late fourteenth century. This study, supported by some analytical categories such as “estate”, “war”, and Mary Elizabeth Berry's formulation of the “Complex Corporatist State”, proposes an empirical investigation of the war tales (gunkimonogatari), legal and administrative documents (komonjo), as well as other types of sources, seeking to examine the characteristics, organization, function and transformation endured by the warrior estate throughout the fourteenth century, while it also traces the continuity of certain social groups while acting as warriors during the preceding centuries. To study the warriors through the lenses of a social estate forces us to examine certain practices, discourses, and ideals that set them apart from the rest of society, as well as to seek how permeable was the social matrix that gave form to fourteenth century Japan, be at the top or the bottom of society, be at the center—the world of the capital, revolving around Kyōto—or at the peripheries—the so-called provincial world, integrating therefore a history of the “major players” with a “bottom-up” view of history, and seeking to decipher the many facets and dynamics of power, politics, and ideals of fourteenth century Japan.
Estou postando aqui as duas primeiras aulas do minicurso que apresentei este ano no evento "Diálo... more Estou postando aqui as duas primeiras aulas do minicurso que apresentei este ano no evento "Diálogos Sobre História", por realização da UFPR. O minicurso completo encontra-se no canal do NEJAP, núcleo de estudos que coordeno, no YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV6hzUdvpAM&list=PLWwdC6P5smZYjiSy6BEeVuz4FpCrEX_wc
First two classes of a short course I gave here in Brazil regarding the shōen-kokugaryō system. English subtitles to be available on YouTube as soon as possible. The complete course is organized in a YouTube Playlist (link above) and available in Brazilian Portuguese.
Estou postando aqui as duas primeiras aulas do minicurso que apresentei este ano no evento "Diálo... more Estou postando aqui as duas primeiras aulas do minicurso que apresentei este ano no evento "Diálogos Sobre História", por realização da UFPR. O minicurso completo encontra-se no canal do NEJAP, núcleo de estudos que coordeno, no YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV6hzUdvpAM&list=PLWwdC6P5smZYjiSy6BEeVuz4FpCrEX_wc
First two classes of a short course I gave here in Brazil regarding the shōen-kokugaryō system. English subtitles to be available on YouTube as soon as possible. The complete course is organized in a YouTube Playlist (link above) and available in Brazilian Portuguese.
O Declínio e a Queda dos Soga - Usos Políticos do Clima e Astros no Nihon Shoki, 2023
Através da análise do episódio da queda dos Soga no Nihon Shoki (720 EC), este artigo mostra como... more Através da análise do episódio da queda dos Soga no Nihon Shoki (720 EC), este artigo mostra como fenômenos climáticos, astronômicos e de outras naturezas foram utilizados pelos redatores da crônica para justificar o golpe de 645 EC. Para isto, será analisada brevemente a trajetória dos Soga, o peso das concepções cosmológicas chinesas no Japão neste período, e o contexto de escrita do Nihon Shoki. Em seguida, os presságios serão estudados em detalhes, traçando um comparativo de seu grau de incidência frente aos três reinados anteriores e aos três reinados posteriores diante dos dois outros reinados onde localizam-se os episódios analisados – o cerne da ascensão e queda dos Soga. Feita esta análise quantitativa da incidência de ocorrências ominosas, o estudo procederá para uma análise exegética dos episódios, de modo a mobilizar argumentos que corroborem com a hipótese levantada.
Analyzing the Soga’s fall as described in the Nihon Shoki (720 CE), this article explores how the chronicle’s writers utilized climatic, astronomical, and other natural phenomena in justifying the coup d’etat of 645 CE, relating it to the Soga’s historical trajectory, the weight of the Chinese cosmological conceptions in Japan at that time, and the context in which the Nihon Shoki was written. The paper also examines the role of omens, comparing their incidence in the three preceding and the three succeeding reigns to the core of the rise and fall of the Soga. The paper concludes with an exegetic analysis of these episodes, seeking arguments that corroborate the hypotheses presented.
Os Samurais em Esboço: Uma análise dos Documentos Tannowa nos séculos XIII e XIV, 2021
The current study analyzes the documents of the Tannowa family, a warrior family which resided in... more The current study analyzes the documents of the Tannowa family, a warrior family which resided in Tannowa-no-shō, Izumi province, and seeks to undestand their path throughout the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In the pursuit of these goals, this study engages in a contextualist analysis of the primary sources, frequently bringing to the fore background matters that operated within the society, such as the model of familial organization and conveyance of property within the warrior families, the system of land administration, the political play between the Imperial Court and the bakufu, among other factors. As the study advances, we are confronted by the new realities of the fourteenth century, where the first bakufu is overthrown, the second one rises over its ashes, and a war of six decades proceeds, product of a schism within the imperial family. In such a background, autonomous warrior leaders (tōzama) seek to offer their services to those who can better reward them. Throughout this study, we see the Tannowa advancing through a series of steps, from their humble beginnings as mere officials under Tannowa-no-shō's proprietor to their ascension to tōzama status in the fourteenth century, alternating between the Northern and Southern Court and consolidating a firm base of regional power in Izumi, ending the century as provincial magnates known as kokujin ryōshu. Their history also allows a rare glimpse of the warriors under the Southern Court and presents faded familial conflicts, possibly pertaining to a part of their history that the compilers wished to forget.
(Dissertation paper for the title of Bachelor of Arts in History)
Multiple Obligations, Multiple Expectations: Loyalty, Service, Duty, and the Samurai of the Fourteenth Century, 2018
The Fourteenth Century Japan was marked by intense political instability and a legitimacy crisis ... more The Fourteenth Century Japan was marked by intense political instability and a legitimacy crisis that lasted half a century, in which two centers of power declared themselves simultaneously as legitimate – the Ashikaga bakufu and the Southern Court in Yoshino. In this context, warlords changed sides in a long civil war according to what was most favorable to them. This article seeks to examine up to what point the topoi of samurai loyalty was historically existent. Furthermore, it tries to make a general summary regarding the circulating ideas concerning loyalty, especially in the gunkimonogatari and buke kakun, as well as to trace a parallel between those ideas and the historical reality of the Japanese Middle Ages.
"Um Guerreiro Com o Valor de Mil Homens": O estamento guerreiro japonês no século XIV, 2024
ver a long period of time in its history, warfare in Japan was the special, although not exclusiv... more ver a long period of time in its history, warfare in Japan was the special, although not exclusive, perquisite of a specific group of men from certain families perceived as warrior houses (tsuwamono no ie, and later, buke). Its members, the warriors—tsuwamono, musha, bushi—are also largely known as samurai. During the fourteenth century, more than ever before, those warriors played a key role in the political and social history of Japan, ending with the domination by the bakufu of the Japanese Imperial bureaucratic machinery in the late fourteenth century. This study, supported by some analytical categories such as “estate”, “war”, and Mary Elizabeth Berry's formulation of the “Complex Corporatist State”, proposes an empirical investigation of the war tales (gunkimonogatari), legal and administrative documents (komonjo), as well as other types of sources, seeking to examine the characteristics, organization, function and transformation endured by the warrior estate throughout the fourteenth century, while it also traces the continuity of certain social groups while acting as warriors during the preceding centuries. To study the warriors through the lenses of a social estate forces us to examine certain practices, discourses, and ideals that set them apart from the rest of society, as well as to seek how permeable was the social matrix that gave form to fourteenth century Japan, be at the top or the bottom of society, be at the center—the world of the capital, revolving around Kyōto—or at the peripheries—the so-called provincial world, integrating therefore a history of the “major players” with a “bottom-up” view of history, and seeking to decipher the many facets and dynamics of power, politics, and ideals of fourteenth century Japan.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV6hzUdvpAM&list=PLWwdC6P5smZYjiSy6BEeVuz4FpCrEX_wc
First two classes of a short course I gave here in Brazil regarding the shōen-kokugaryō system. English subtitles to be available on YouTube as soon as possible. The complete course is organized in a YouTube Playlist (link above) and available in Brazilian Portuguese.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV6hzUdvpAM&list=PLWwdC6P5smZYjiSy6BEeVuz4FpCrEX_wc
First two classes of a short course I gave here in Brazil regarding the shōen-kokugaryō system. English subtitles to be available on YouTube as soon as possible. The complete course is organized in a YouTube Playlist (link above) and available in Brazilian Portuguese.
Analyzing the Soga’s fall as described in the Nihon Shoki (720 CE), this article explores how the chronicle’s writers utilized climatic, astronomical, and other natural phenomena in justifying the coup d’etat of 645 CE, relating it to the Soga’s historical trajectory, the weight of the Chinese cosmological conceptions in Japan at that time, and the context in which the Nihon Shoki was written. The paper also examines the role of omens, comparing their incidence in the three preceding and the three succeeding reigns to the core of the rise and fall of the Soga. The paper concludes with an exegetic analysis of these episodes, seeking arguments that corroborate the hypotheses presented.
(Dissertation paper for the title of Bachelor of Arts in History)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV6hzUdvpAM&list=PLWwdC6P5smZYjiSy6BEeVuz4FpCrEX_wc
First two classes of a short course I gave here in Brazil regarding the shōen-kokugaryō system. English subtitles to be available on YouTube as soon as possible. The complete course is organized in a YouTube Playlist (link above) and available in Brazilian Portuguese.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV6hzUdvpAM&list=PLWwdC6P5smZYjiSy6BEeVuz4FpCrEX_wc
First two classes of a short course I gave here in Brazil regarding the shōen-kokugaryō system. English subtitles to be available on YouTube as soon as possible. The complete course is organized in a YouTube Playlist (link above) and available in Brazilian Portuguese.
Analyzing the Soga’s fall as described in the Nihon Shoki (720 CE), this article explores how the chronicle’s writers utilized climatic, astronomical, and other natural phenomena in justifying the coup d’etat of 645 CE, relating it to the Soga’s historical trajectory, the weight of the Chinese cosmological conceptions in Japan at that time, and the context in which the Nihon Shoki was written. The paper also examines the role of omens, comparing their incidence in the three preceding and the three succeeding reigns to the core of the rise and fall of the Soga. The paper concludes with an exegetic analysis of these episodes, seeking arguments that corroborate the hypotheses presented.
(Dissertation paper for the title of Bachelor of Arts in History)