The Tokugawa World

1. The three unifiers of the state
2. Japan’s invasions of Korea in 1592–98 and the Hideyoshi regime
3. The life and afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616)
4. Water management in Tokugawa Japan
5. The King Yu legend and flood control in Tokugawa Japan
6. Earthquakes in historical context
7. The center of the shogun’s realm: building Nihonbashi
8. The samurai in Tokugawa Japan
9. Villages and farmers in the Tokugawa period
10. Popular movements in the Edo period: peasants, peasant uprisings, and the development of lawful petitions
11. Coastal whaling and its impact on early modern Japan
12. Outcastes and their social roles in Tokugawa Japa
13. Women in cities and towns
14. Childhood in Tokugawa Japan
15. Growing small bodies at the point of skin: young children’s bodies and health in sacred skinscape
16. Food fights, but it’s always for fun in early modern Japan
17. The silk weavers of Nishijin: wage-laborers in the Tokugawa world
18. The marketing of urban human waste and urban-fringe agriculture around the Tokugawa cities
19. Japan and the world in Tokugawa maps
20. Nihonmachi in Southeast Asia in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
21. Rethinking Ezo-chi, the Ainu, and Tokugawa Japan in a global perspective
22. The opening of the Tokugawa world and Japan’s foreign relations: the visits of Korean embassies to Japan
23. Early modern Ryukyu between China and Japan
24. Dutch East India company relations with Tokugawa Japan
25. The presence of black people in Japan during the Edo period
26. Seventeenth-century Chinese émigrés and Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges
27. Selective Sakoku?
28. Tokugawa Japan and the rise of modern racial thought in the West
29. The musical world of Tokugawa Japan
30. Visual disability and musical culture in Edo-period Japan
31. Tominaga Nakamoto (1715–46) and Gagaku (court music)
32. Staging senseless violence: early joruri puppet theater and the culture of performance
33. Rural kabuki and the imagination of Japanese identity in the late Tokugawa Period
34. Sumo wrestling in the Tokugawa period
35. Shunga in Tokugawa society and culture
36. Uses of shunga and ukiyo-e in the Tokugawa period
37. The two paths of love in the fiction of Ihara Saikaku
38. Furuta Oribe: controversial daimyo tea-master
39. Grass booklets and the roots of manga: comic books in the Tokugawa period
40. An iconology of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering: image, text, and communities in Tokugawa-era Japan
41. The folk worldview of Chronicles of the Eight Dog Heroes of the Satomi Clan of Nansō
42. Okakura Kakuzo and the Osaka Painting Schools of the Tokugawa era
43. The rise and fall and spring of haiku
44. Christians, Christianity, and Kakure Kirishitan in Japan (1549–1868)
45. Pilgrimage in Tokugawa Japan
46. Structuring the canon: exceptionalism and Kokugaku
47. The image of Susanoo in Hirata Atsutane’s Koshiden
48. Itō Jinsai and the origins of Classical Learning (Kogaku)
49. Mapping intellectual history
50. Emperor-centrism and the historiography of the Mito School
51. Heigaku and bushido: military thought in the Tokugawa world
52. Confucian views of life and death
53. Tokugawa popu

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.