Ann Waswo is University Lecturer in Modern Japanese History at the University of Oxford. A Fellow of St. Antony's College, she is the author of Japanese Landlords: The Decline of a Rural Elite (California, 1977).

• Preface to the Paperback EditionTranslator's IntroductionGlossary of Japanese TermsThe SoilTranslator's Note

Ann Waswo is University Lecturer in Modern Japanese History at the University of Oxford. A Fellow of St. Antony's College, she is the author of Japanese Landlords: The Decline of a Rural Elite (California, 1977).

• Preface to the Paperback EditionTranslator's IntroductionGlossary of Japanese TermsThe SoilTranslator's Note