Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan 9780824865245

Edo Kabuki in Transition: From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost 9780231540520

Satoko Shimazaki revisits three centuries of kabuki theater and its dynamic representations of medieval Japanese tales a

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The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan 9780226060736

InThe Politics of Dialogic Imagination, Katsuya Hirano seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the

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The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan 067425466X, 9780674254664

Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic a

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Naganuma Ryu Troop Movement Training Manual: An Edo Period Samurai Military Arts and Sciences

The samurai were among the greatest warriors in history, and the Naganuma Ryu was an extremely prestigious Edo period sc

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The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan 9780520965584

Early modern Japan was a military-bureaucratic state governed by patriarchal and patrilineal principles and laws. During

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The Archaeology of Conflicts: Early modern military encampments and material culture 9781407359618, 9781407359625

For the first time, this volume brings together an international group of experts on the topic of early modern military

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Zen - The Religion of the Samurai (Study Of Zen Philosophy And Discipline In China And Japan)

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Edo and Paris: Urban Life and the State in the Early Modern Era 9781501738807

A book that will change the way we think about the relationship between city and nation, Edo and Paris offers a dazzling

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Excursions in Identity: Travel and the Intersection of Place, Gender, and Status in Edo Japan 9780824862435

In the Edo period (1600–1868), status- and gender-based expectations largely defined a person’s place and identity in so

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The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe 9780812200492

Eight essays by major authors who attempt to find out who read, published, or advertised what, when, and where from the

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