...Philip C. Brown Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 The Bakufu in Japanese History . Edited by Jeffrey P. Mass and William B. Hauser . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1985 . xvi, 264 pp. Map, Tables, Notes, Index. $34. BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN...

...Charles D. Sheldon Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 Politics in the Tokugawa Bakufu 1600–1843 . By Conrad Totman . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 1967 . 346 pp. Index, Glossary, Bibliography, Notes, Maps, Tables. $9.50. (Harvard...

... for the security of their han . This concern, he argues, led them to refuse to assist the bakufu even in its moment of supreme crisis. He sees this outcome as the final expression of an enduring situation in which the interests of fudai daimyo were in permanent conflict with the interests of the bakufu...

... and the ensuing war between the shosenior and junior imperial lines and their respective supporters, see Shin'ichi Sato , Nanbokucho no Dōran , Tokyo : Chuo Koron , 1971 or Masaharu Kawai , Nancho to Hokucho , Tokyo : Bunseido , 1970 . 4 Sato Shin'ichi, ”Muromachi bakufu...

...Marius B. Jansen The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu , 1862–1868 . By Conrad Totman . Honolulu : The University Press of Hawaii , 1980 . xxiv, 588 pp. Maps, Appendixes, Notes, Character List, Bibliographical Essay, Bibliography, Index. $22.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Andrew Goble The Laws of the Muromachi Bakufu . By Kenneth Grossberg and Kanamoto Nobuhisa (trans.). Tokyo : Sophia University Press (Monumenta Nipponica Monograph No. 56), 1981 . 171 pp. $10. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 358 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Suzanne Gay Japan's Renaissance: The Politics of the Muromachi Bakufu . By Kenneth Alan Grossberg . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1981 . 207 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $15. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 664 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Robert Innes State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu . By Ronald P. Toby . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1984 . xxviii, 309 pp. Illustrations, Glossary, Archives and Manuscript Collections Consulted, Bibliography, Index...

... is that it is probably very close to the truth. DAVID G. G O O D M A N The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign French Policy Towards the Bakufu and Meiji Japan, 1854-95. By R I C H A R D SIMS. Richmond, Surrey: Japan Library-Curzon Press, 1998. vi, 394 pp. $48.00. Richard Sims has revised and published a thesis he...

...Xing Hang Abstract During the seventeenth century, an alliance took shape between Japan's Tokugawa bakufu and the Zheng organization of southeastern China and Taiwan. The Zheng, especially under the half-Japanese Koxinga in the 1650s, were ideal partners because of their domination of maritime East...

...Harry D. Harootunian Abstract The Meiji Restoration of 1868, unquestionably the most important event in modern Japanese history, brought in its wake social and economic changes of a revolutionary nature. With the overthrow of the Tokugawa bakufu , the subsequent abolition of the han system...

... and mapmaking by the state were standardized and regularized. The Tokugawa ordered all daimyo to map their landholdings in 1605; these edicts were repeated numerous times, such that by the early nineteenth century the bakufu had organized five countrywide mapmaking and surveying projects, and produced from...

... of the Muromachi Bakufu. By KENNETH GROSSBERG and KANAMOTO NOBUHISA (trans Tokyo: Sophia University Press (Monumenta Nipponica Monograph No. 56), 1981. 171pp. $10. It is three-quarters of a century since the appearance of J. C. Hall's pioneering English translation of the Muromachi bakufu's basic law code...

..., Bibliography, Glossary. $7.50. Professor Varley's study is directed at "an examination both of the institutional development of military government . . . and of the Onin War" (p. 3). His purpose is to show the "institutional continuity from preKamakura days through the first centuries of Bakufu rule" (p. 3...

... the "institutional continuity from preKamakura days through the first centuries of Bakufu rule" (p. 3). The founding of both the Kamakura and Ashikaga Bakufu are regarded "not as revolutionary breaks with the past, but as evolutionary stages" of historical development (p. 4). The book is divided into two parts. Part...

..., Jeffrey P. Mass has produced three major studies of the Kamakura bakufu. The first was a carefully documented treatment of the bakufu's origins {Warrior Government in Early MedievalJapan A Study of the Kamakura Bakufu: Shugo andjito [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974 The second included a translation...

... published in volumes 3 and 4 of The Cambridge History ofJapan: "The Kamakura Bakufu" by Jeffrey P. Mass, "The Decline of the Kamakura Bakufu" by Ishii Susumu, "The Muromachi Bakufu" and "The Bakuhan System" by John W. Hall, and "The Han" by Harold Bolitho. A twelvepage preface by Marius Jansen provides...

... be mentioned here that the characterization often made of Shushigaku as the “orthodoxy” of the Bakufu can be misleading. The Bakufu favored it, but not at the exclusion of other systems of thought. Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain the important advisory role played by Ogyū Sorai and Dazai Shundai...

... intellectual world. The most important essay in this regard is by Herman Ooms, who provides an innovative and sophisticated analysis of the relations among Neo-Confucianism, the Tokugawa bakufu, and early Tokugawa ideology. In this essay, some of the content of which is contained in his recently published...

... realities of bakufu legal restrictions regarding the movement of people along the state-controlled Gokaido travel network. The stated purpose of his book is "to examine Tokugawa society . . . before the introduction of railroad technology from the West in the late nineteenth century, through the prism...