Tokugawa Japan : the social and economic antecedents of modern Japan 9780860084471, 0860084477, 9784130270243, 4130270249

State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu 9781503621015

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The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Sōtō Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan 9781400832590

Popular understanding of Zen Buddhism typically involves a stereotyped image of isolated individuals in meditation, cont

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Japan Before Tokugawa: Political Consolidation and Economic Growth, 1500-1650 [Course Book ed.] 9781400855315

These papers by leading specialists on sixteenth-century Japan explore Japan's transition from medieval (Chusei) to

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Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed 9780824863227

Engelbert Kaempfer's History of Japan was a best-seller from the moment it was published in London in 1727. Born in

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Economic Development of Japan 9781400877249

The rise of Japan from agrarianism to a position as one of the leading industrial powers is one of the most dramatic and

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Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period, 1603-1868 9780520928305

This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes—including ma

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Japan Before Tokugawa: Political Consolidation and Economic Growth, 1500-1650 [1 ed.] 0691053081, 9780691053080

These papers by leading specialists on sixteenth-century Japan explore Japan's transition from medieval (Chusei) to

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Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History 9780824863043

Japan to 1600 surveys Japanese historical development from the first evidence of human habitation in the archipelago to

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Urban Networks in Ch'ing China and Tokugawa Japan 9781400870936

Ch'ing China and Tokugawa Japan were unusually urbanized premodern societies where about one half of the world'

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Bereavement and Consolation: Testimonies from Tokugawa Japan 0300097980, 9780300097986

Death came early and often to the people of Tokugawa Japan, as it did to the rest of the pre-modern world. Yet the Japan

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