Uncharted Waters: Intellectual Life in the EDO Period - Essays in Honour of W.J. Boot

Intellectual life in Edo-period Japan was sometimes harmoniously productive, sometimes destructively vicious, but never stagnant. This volume, compiled in honour of Prof. W.J. Boot, offers eleven essays that explore the intellectual scene of Edo-period Japan from a variety of perspectives.

About the author

Anna Beerens, PhD (2006) in Japanese Studies, University of Leiden, works as an editor and is active as an independent scholar specializing the the social and institutional history of early modern Japan. Her most recent publication "Interview with Two Ladies of the Ooku" appeared in Monumenta Nipponica vol. 63, no. 2 (2008).
Mark Teeuwen, PhD (1996) in Japanese Studies, University of Leiden, is Professor at Oslo University. He has published extensively on the history of kami cults and Shinto. His latest book is A new history of Shinto (2010, co-authored with John Breen).

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.05.2012
• EAN: 9789004216730
• ISBN: 978-90-04-21673-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 244 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 568 g
• Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Libra
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous