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Name
  
Jeffrey Mass

Role
  
Author

Education
  
Yale University (1971)


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Died
  
March 30, 2001, Palo Alto, California, United States

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Books
  
The Kamakura Bakufu, Court and Bakufu in Japan, Yoritomo and the Founding, Antiquity and Anachron, Lordship and Inheritanc

Jeffrey Paul Mass (June 29, 1940 – March 30, 2001) was an American academic, historian, author and Japanologist. He was Yamato Ichihashi Professor of Japanese History at Stanford University.

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Early life

Mass was born in New York City in 1940. He earned a bachelor's degree in history from Hamilton College in 1961, a master's degree in history from New York University awarded a master's degree in 1965 and he received his doctorate in history from Yale in 1971.

Career

Mass joined the Stanford University faculty in 1973. He was made a full professor in 1981.

After 1987, he spent the late spring and summer of each year teaching at Oxford University.

During many years, his research was supported by a Fulbright Research Fellowship, a Mellon Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and other grants.

Selected works

In an overview of writings by and about Mass, OCLC/WorldCat lists roughly 30+ works in 110+ publications in 3 languages and 5,000+ library holdings.

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  • Warrior government in early medieval Japan: a study of the Kamakura Bakufu, shugo and jitō, 1974
  • The Kamakura bakufu: a study in documents, 1976
  • The development of Kamakura rule, 1180-1250: a history with documents, 1979
  • Court and Bakufu in Japan: essays in Kamakura history, 1982
  • The Bakufu in Japanese history, 1985
  • Lordship and inheritance in Early Medieval Japan: a study of the Kamakura Soryō system, 1989
  • Antiquity and anachronism in Japanese history, 1992
  • The origins of Japan's medieval world: courtiers, clerics, warriors, and peasants in the fourteenth century, 1997
  • Yoritomo and the founding of the first Bakufu: the origins of dual government in Japan, 1999
  • References

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