...Robert Evans, Jr 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, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $18.50 Copyright © Association...

... to Higashi Ajia ( Tokyo : Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai , 1988 ) . 2 Ronald P. Toby , State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu ( Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1984 ) . Overall this book offers an accessible overview...

...E. S. Crawcour Abstract The development of commerce and the rise of a merchant class in Tokugawa Japan have deservedly received considerable attention from both Japanese and Western scholars. In Japan that interest would seem to have been prompted by the problem of the rôle of the pre-Restoration...

...Grant K. Goodman Private Academies of Tokugawa Japan . By Richard Rubinger . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1982 . xvi, 282 pp. Illustrations, Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $26.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 168 JOURNAL...

...Lane Earns Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed . By Engelbert Kaempfer . Edited, translated, and annotated by Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1999 . xiv, 545 pp. $34.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 744...

...M. William Steele Musui's Story—The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai . By Katsu Kokichi . Translated by Teruko Craig . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1988 , 178 pp. $19.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 170 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...David L. Howell Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period (1603–1868) . By Marcia Yonemoto . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2003 . xv , 234 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O...

...Arthur Taylor von Mehren Conciliation and Japanese Law. Tokugawa and Modern . Volume I and Volume II . By Dan Fenno Henderson . Published for the Association for Asian Studies by University of Washington Press , Seattle, and University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, 1965 . 181 + 183–420...

...Robert K. Sakai Abstract The Shimazu daimyo of Satsuma-han maintained indirect contact with the China mainland throughout most of the Tokugawa period. This contact was possible despite the seclusion policy of the Tokugawa government which prohibited Japanese from going abroad and the policy...

...William B. Hauser Village “Contracts” in Tokugawa Japan: Fifty Specimens with English Translations and Comments . By Dan Fenno Henderson . Seattle : University of Washington Press , Asian Law Series 2, 1975 . xi, 234 pp. Notes, Appendixes, Glossary. $10.00 Copyright © The Association...

...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...

...Neil McMullin Confucianism and Tokugawa Culture . Edited by Peter Nosco . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1984 . x, 290 pp. List of Contributors, Glossary, Index. $32.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 612 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES than...

...Sydney Crawcour Abstract Despite the recurrent ravages of fire and earthquake and the devastation of the Pacific War, a sizeable volume of documentary material survives from Japan's Tokugawa period (1603–1868). Although its government archives may not be as large as those of the older centralized...

... 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...

...Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi The Mito Ideology: Discourse, Reform, and Insurrection in Late Tokugawa Japan, 1790–1864 . By J. Victor Koschmann . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1987 . x, 174 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988...

...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...

...Herbert Ooms The Perception of Work in Tokugawa Japan: A Study of Ishida Baigan and Ninomiya Sontoku . By Eiji Takemura . Lanham, Md. : University Press of America , 1997 . xi, 229 pp. $46.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 213...

...Tetsuo Najita Abstract When teaching Tokugawa intellectual history, I consistently encounter a question that is at once deceptively simple yet so difficult to respond to in a convincing and substantial way. Why do Japanese historians argue that Confucianism had an important impact on Tokugawa...

...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...

...Herman Ooms Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan: Asakusa Sensōji and Edo Society . By Nam-Lin Hur . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2000 . xii, 302 pp. $40.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 1191 uses...