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Authorizing the Shogunate — Selinger Chairs Black with white wordmark andBy Vyjayanthi Selinger Associate Professor of Asian Studies The Genpei War of 1180 1185 signaled a crucial shift in Japanese history because it gave birth to the shogunate, or government run by warriors. How was the emergence of this new polity following a contentious civil war explained in literary texts? This book argues that political authority is made visible in the variant texts of the Heike monogatari corpus through ritual that map the ideal