Tokugawa World

With over 60 contributions, The Tokugawa World presents the latest scholarship on early modern Japan from an international team of specialists in a volume that is unmatched in its breadth and scope.
In its early modern period, under the Tokugawa shoguns, Japan was a world apart. For over two centuries the shogun's subjects were forbidden to travel abroad and few outsiders were admitted. Yet in this period, Japan evolved as a nascent capitalist society that could rapidly adjust to its incorporation into the world system after its forced "opening" in the 1850s. The Tokugawa World demonstrates how Japan's early modern society took shape and evolved: a world of low and high cultures, comic books and Confucian academies, soba restaurants and imperial music recitals, rigid enforcement of social hierarchy yet also ongoing resistance to class oppression. A world of outcasts, puppeteers, herbal doctors, samurai officials, businesswomen, scientists, scholars, blind lutenists, peasant rebels, tea-masters, sumo wrestlers, and wage workers.
Covering a variety of features of the Tokugawa world including the physical landscape, economy, art and literature, religion and thought, and education and science, this volume is essential reading for all students and scholars of early modern Japan.

List of contents

Introduction

Part I: National Reunification, 1563-1603

1. The Three Unifiers of the Empire (Tenka): Nobunaga (1534-82), Hideyoshi (1536-98) and Ieyasu (1543-1616)
Fujita Tatsuo


2. Japan's Invasions of Korea in 1592-98 and the Hideyoshi Regime
Nam-Lin Hur

3. The Life and Afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616)
Morgan Pitelka
Part II: The Physical Landscape

4. Water Management in Tokugawa Japan
Murata Michihito 

5. The King Yu Legend and Flood Control in Tokugawa Japan
Wang Min


6. Earthquakes in Historical Context
Gregory Smits

7. The Centre of the Shogun's Realm: Building Nihonbashi
Timon Screech
Part III: Tokugawa Society

8. The Samurai in Tokugawa Japan
Constantine Vaporis


9. Villages and Farmers in the Tokugawa Period
Watanabe Takashi


10. Popular Movements in the Edo Period: Peasants, Peasant Uprisings, and the Development of Lawful Petitions
Taniyama Masamichi

11. Coastal Whaling and Its Impact on Early Modern Japan
Jakobina Arch

12. Outcastes and Their Social Roles in Tokugawa Japan
Maren Ehlers
Part IV: Family, Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction

13. Women in Cities and Towns
Amy Stanley

14. Childhood in Tokugawa Japan
Kristin Williams

15. Growing Small Bodies at the Point of Skin: Young Children's Bodies and Health in Sacred Skinscape
William Lindsey
Part V: Tokugawa Economy

16. Food Fights, But It's Always for Fun in Early Modern Japan
Eric Rath

17. The Silk Weavers of Nishijin: Wage-Laborers in the Tokugawa World
Gary P. Leupp


18. The Marketing of Human Waste and Urban-fringe Agriculture around the Tokugawa Cities
Tajima Kayo
Part VI: Tokugawa Japan in the World

19. Japan and the World in Tokugawa Maps
Kären Wigen
20. Nihonmachi in Southeast Asia in the Late Sixteenth-Early Seventeenth Centuries
Travis Seifman


21. Rethinking Ezo-chi, the Ainu, and Tokugawa Japan in Global Perspective
Noémy Godefroy

22. The Opening of the Tokugawa World and Japan's Foreign Relations: The Visits of Korean Embassies to Japan
Nakao Hiroshi

23. Early Modern Ryukyu Between China and Japan
Watanabe Miki

24. Dutch East India Company Relations With Tokugawa Japan
Adam Clulow

25. The Presence of Black People in Japan During the Edo Perio
Fujita Midori

26. Seventeenth Century Chinese Émigrés and Sino-Japanese Cultural Exchanges
Shyu Shing-ching


27. Selective Sakoku? Tantalizing Hints of Japanese in China after the Tokugawa Maritime Prohibition
Xing Hang

28. Tokugawa Japan and the Rise of Modern Racial Thought in the West
Rotem Kowner
Part VII: The Performing Arts and Sport

29. The Musical World of Tokugawa Japan
Alison Tokita


30. Visual Disability and Musical Culture in Edo-Period Japan
Gerald Groemer

31. Tominaga Nakamoto (1715-1746) and Gagaku (Court Music)
Int Kazuhiro

32. Staging Senseless Violence: Early J ruri Puppet Theater and the Culture of Performance
Keller Kimbrough


33. Rural Kabuki and the Imagination of Japanese Identity in the Late Tokugawa Period
William Fleming

34. Sumo Wrestling in the Tokugawa Period
Lee Thompson
Part VIII: Art and Literature
35. Shunga in Tokugawa Society and Culture
Andrew Gerstle


36. Uses of Shunga and Ukiyoe in the Tokugawa Period
Hayakawa Monta


37. Two Paths of Love in the Fiction of Ihara Saikaku
David Gundry

38. Furuta Oribe: Controversial Daimyo Tea Master
Kaminishi Ikumi

39. Grass Booklets and the Roots of Manga: Comic Books in the Tokugawa Period
Glynne Walley

40. An Iconology of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering: Image, Text, and Communities in Tokugawa-Era Japan
Kameda-Madar Kazuko

41. The Folk Worldview of Chronicles of the Eight Dog Heroes of the Satomi Clan of Nans
Inoue Atsushi


42. Okakura Kakuz and the Osaka Painting Schools of the Tokugawa Era
Nakatani Nobuo

43. The Rise and Fall and Spring of Haiku
Adam L. Kern
Part IX: Religion and Thought

44. Christians, Christianity and Kakure Kirishitan in Japan (1549-1868)
Jan Leuchtenberger

45. Pilgrimage in Tokugawa Japan
Barbara Ambros

46. Structuring the Canon: Exceptionalism and Kokugaku
Mark McNally


47. The Image of Susanoo in Hirata Atsutane's Koshiden
Tajiri Yuichir


48. It Jinsai and the Origins of Classical Learning (Kogaku)
Tsuchida Kenjir

49. Mapping Intellectual History: The Neo-Confucian Schools of Zhu Xi, Wang Yangming, and Ogyu Sorai as Mirrored in Islamic Thought
Kojima Yasunori


50. Emperor-Centrism and the Historiography of the Mito School
Kojima Tsuyoshi

51. Heigaku and Bushid : Military Thought in the Tokugawa World
Maeda Tsutomu

52. Confucian Views of Life and Death
Takahashi Fumihiro
Part X: Education and Science

53. Tokugawa Popular Education
Brian Platt

54. The Greater Learning for Women and Women's Moral Education in Tokugawa Japan
Yabuta Yutaka

55. "Reading" of the Chinese Classics and the History of Thought in the Edo Period
Nakamura Shunsaku

56. Health, Disease and Epidemics in Late Tokugawa Japan
William Johnston

57. Doctors and Herbal Medicine in Tokugawa Japan
Machi Sunjur

58. The History of Natural History in Tokugawa Japan
Federico Marcon


59. Attitudes Toward Celestial Events in Tokugawa Japan
Sugi Takeshi
Part XI: Epilogue

60. From Feudalism to Meritocracy?: Growing Demand for Competent and Efficient Government in the Late Tokugawa Period
Matsuda Koichir

61. Sh in and Changing Worldviews in the Late Tokugawa Period
Kirihara Kenshin

62. The Shinsengumi: Shadows and Light in the Last Days of the Tokugawa Shogunate
Kimura Yukihiko
63. Katsu Kaishu and Yokoi Sh nan: Late Tokugawa Imaginings of a More Democratic Japan
William Steele


64. Confucian Education in the Formative Years of the Meiji Leaders and Its Modern Implications

De-min Tao

Summary

With over 60 contributions, The Tokugawa World presents the latest scholarship on early modern Japan from an international team of specialists in a volume that is unmatched in its breadth and scope.

Report

'In short, the Tokugawa world matters, and this volume provides plenty of opportunities to appreciate its relevance and, yes, its awesomeness.'
- Laura Nenzi, Emory University, Monumenta Nipponica

Product details

• Authors: Gary P. (Tufts University Leupp
• Assisted by: Gary P. Leupp (Editor), Leupp Gary P. (Editor), De-min Tao (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.2021
• EAN: 9781138936850
• ISBN: 978-1-138-93685-0
• No. of pages: 1198
• Series: Routledge Worlds
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Japan, HISTORY / General, Social & cultural history, Society & culture: general, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Regional Studies, Social and cultural history, Regional / International studies, Asian History, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Society and culture: general, History and Archaeology