Spectacular Accumulation Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability

Investigates the significance of material culture and sociability in late sixteenth-century Japan, focusing in particular on the career and afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616), the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. The story of Ieyasu illustrates the close ties between people, things, and politics and offers us insight into the role of material culture in the shift from medieval to early modern Japan.

About the author

Morgan Pitelka is associate professor of Asian studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Product details

• Authors: Morgan Pitelka
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.06.2018
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9780824876814
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-7681-4
• Pages: 240
• Subjects: HISTORY / Military / General; History - General History; HISTORY / Asia / Japan