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..., Bibliography. $9.00 (Catalogue). $100.00 (Slide set and Catalogue). The Theatrical World of Osaka Prints: A Collection of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Japanese Woodblock Prints in the Philadelphia Museum of Art . By Roger S. Keyes and Keiko Mizushima . Philadelphia : Philadelphia Museum of Art...

... could improve upon. THEODORE M. CRITCHFIELD University of Guam Osaka Prints. By D E A N J . S C H W A A B . New York: Rizzoli International Publications Inc., 1989- 288 pp. $65.00. Scholars and collectors have studied Osaka prints for their subject matter, design and technical excellence. The majority...

...Carola Hein The City as Subject: Seki Hajime and the Reinvention of Modern Osaka . By Jeffrey E. Hanes . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2002 . xii , 348 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 614 THE JOURNAL...

...Paul Waley Osaka: The Merchants' Capital of Early Modern Japan . Edited by James L. McClain and Wakita Osamu . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1999 . xxviii, 295 pp. $49.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 1024 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Andrew Fraser Abstract The Osaka Conference of January 1875 usually receives rather scant attention in political histories of modern Japan. To some extent this is justified, since of the two important results of the Conference, Itagaki's reconciliation with the government proved shortlived...

...Robert Evans, Jr Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 Economic Institutional Change in Tokugawa Japan: Osaka and the Kinai Cotton Trade . By William B. Hauser . London and New York : Cambridge University Press , 1974 . xiv, 239 pp. Tables, Maps, Notes...

... in the Tokugawa period can be documented. Kaga han needed an all-water route to Osaka because of the high cost of transshipping rice by land from Tsuruga to Osaka. This may have been the main reason for the development in the latter part of the seventeenth century of nishi mawari , the route for ships going from...

...Leon Zolbrod Abstract When students of Japanese literary history view the latter part of the Tokugawa period, two developments stand out. First, Edo replaced Kyoto and Osaka as the center of cultural activity. Second, a baffling variety of forms of prose fiction arose. The former stemmed largely...

.... It is regrettable that there are innumerable mistakes in the romanization of Japanese in the book. KOYASU NOBUKUNI Osaka University Themes and Theories in Modern Japanese History. Edited by SUE H E N N Y and JEAN-PIERRE LEHMANN. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, Inc., 1988. xvi, 292 pp. $65.00...

..., but they are thoughtprovoking and underscore the oversimplifications inherent in many conventional views. If the remaining two volumes approach the level of the first, the set will become the standard reference on the political economy of Japan. CHARLES YUJI HORIOKA Stanford University and Osaka University ...

... is without factual substance—land productivity was probably the highest in the kinki region (prefectures of Kyoto, Osaka, Nara, Wakayama, Mie, Hyogo, and Shiga), but this region was the last place where farming technology could have been bottled up. The han governments could not set up effective artificial...

...Barbara Ruch Abstract Around 1700, the Osaka publisher Shibukawa seiemon collected and printed twenty-three medieval short stories and put them on sale labelled Otogi bunko , or The Companion Library . Shibukawa's sales techniques, aimed at selling his anthology to female readers, led later...

...Alexis Dudden Abstract On March 15, 2011, late at night at the Osaka train station, I met the first refugees from the earthquake that I would come to know. The family of four did not look like what I thought that people who were fleeing the horrendous images on television would. The mother, father...

.... , Economic Institutional Change in Tokugawa Japan: Osaka and the Kinat Cotton Trade , ( Cambridge University Press , 1974 ). 2 Smith Thomas C. , The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan , ( Stanford , 1959 ), pp. 76–7. 3 Seishin Okamoto , ed., Amagasaki shishi , II...

... in the entertainment section of the 1903 Fifth Domestic Industrial Exposition in Osaka. This exposition was larger than any of the previous four domestic expositions that preceded it, in terms of exposition space, number of exhibitors, and the 4,351,000 estimated visitors it attracted (Yoshimi 1992 , 127). For many...