ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|56 pages
National reunification, 1563–1603
chapter Chapter One|16 pages
The three unifiers of the state (tenka)
part II|73 pages
The physical landscape
part III|95 pages
Tokugawa society
chapter Chapter Ten|25 pages
Popular movements in the Edo period
part IV|54 pages
Family, gender, sexuality, and reproduction
chapter Chapter Fifteen|14 pages
Growing small bodies at the point of skin
part V|49 pages
Tokugawa economy
chapter Chapter Eighteen|12 pages
The marketing of urban human waste and urban-fringe agriculture around the Tokugawa cities
part VI|181 pages
Tokugawa Japan in the world
chapter Chapter Twenty|20 pages
Nihonmachi in Southeast Asia in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
chapter Chapter Twenty-one|35 pages
Rethinking Ezo-chi, the Ainu, and Tokugawa Japan in a global perspective
chapter Chapter Twenty-two|15 pages
The opening of the Tokugawa world and Japan's foreign relations
chapter Chapter Twenty-six|15 pages
Seventeenth-century Chinese émigrés and Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges
chapter Chapter Twenty-seven|16 pages
Selective Sakoku?
chapter Chapter Twenty-eight|15 pages
Tokugawa Japan and the rise of modern racial thought in the West
part VII|108 pages
The performing arts and sport
chapter Chapter Thirty-Two|16 pages
Staging senseless violence
chapter Chapter Thirty-Three|17 pages
Rural kabuki and the imagination of Japanese identity in the late Tokugawa Period
part VIII|174 pages
Art and literature
chapter Chapter Thirty-nine|25 pages
Grass booklets and the roots of manga
chapter Chapter Forty|17 pages
An iconology of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering
chapter Chapter Forty-one|17 pages
The folk worldview of Chronicles of the Eight Dog Heroes of the Satomi Clan of Nansō
part IX|145 pages
Religion and thought
chapter Chapter Forty-four|14 pages
Christians, Christianity, and Kakure Kirishitan in Japan (1549–1868)
part X|128 pages
Education and Science
chapter Chapter Fifty-four|18 pages
The Greater Learning for Women and women's moral education in Tokugawa Japan
chapter Chapter Fifty-five|16 pages
“Reading” of the Chinese classics and the history of thought in the Edo period
part XI|95 pages
Epilogue