Jōgan era reforms

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The Jōgan era reforms were a set of late 9th-century Heian-period governmental and fiscal measures aimed at curbing aristocratic abuses, strengthening central authority, and restoring effective imperial administration.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf fiscal reform
government reform
political reform
aimedAt curbing aristocratic abuses
restoring effective imperial administration
strengthening central authority
appliedInPeriod Heian period
chronologicalPosition after early Heian administrative consolidation
country Japan
governmentalLevel central government
hasEffect attempted limitation of aristocratic landholding abuses
attempted reinforcement of ritsuryō system
hasPart administrative reform measures
fiscal reform measures
legal and judicial measures
historicalSignificance example of late 9th-century centralizing policies in Japan
implementedBy central bureaucracy
imperial government of Japan
languageOfRecord Classical Japanese
locatedInTime Jōgan era
politicalContext imperial court politics
rise of powerful aristocratic families
recordedIn Heian-period court documents
relatedTo aristocratic estates in Heian Japan
imperial authority in Japan
ritsuryō system
startTime late 9th century
subjectOf Japanese historiography
studies of Heian political history
studies of premodern Japanese fiscal policy

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Heian period
majorEvent

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