Collected to memorialize the career and teachings of a leading authority on medieval Japanese history, these essays contribute cutting edge historical analysis of a multifaceted array of topics. These eleven illuminating essays focus on the social, economic, regional and institutional dynamics of Japan’s medieval era, and subject existing understandings and conceptualizations of this period to penetrating scrutiny. The essays individually and collectively advance historical inquiry about medieval times to new levels of perception, and provide new points of departure for the field and for those interested in comparative studies more broadly.