Tokugawa World

Gary P. Leupp is Professor of History, Tufts University, author of Servants, Shophands and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan (1989); Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan (1993); Interracial Intimacy: Japanese Women and Western Men, 1543–1900 (2001), and other works on class, gender, and ethnicity in Japanese history.De-min Tao is Professor Emeritus at Kansai University, Japan, author of A Study of the Kaitokudō Neo-Confucianism (J. 1994); Yoshida Shōin and Commodore Perry: A Multilingual Study of the 1854 Shimoda Incident (2020); and An Alternative Image of Naitō Konan: 20 Years of Research about the Naitō Collection at Kansai University Library (J. 2021).

'In short, the Tokugawa world matters, and this volume provides plenty of opportunities to appreciate its relevance and, yes, its awesomeness.' - Laura Nenzi, Emory University, Monumenta Nipponica

• IntroductionPart I: National Reunification, 1563-16031. The Three Unifiers of the Empire (Tenka): Nobunaga (1534-82), Hideyoshi (1536-98) and Ieyasu (1543-1616) Fujita Tatsuo2. Japan’s Invasions of Korea in 1592-98 and the Hideyoshi RegimeNam-Lin Hur3. The Life and Afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616)Morgan PitelkaPart II: The Physical Landscape 4. Water Management in Tokugawa JapanMurata Michihito 5. The King Yu Legend and Flood Control in Tokugawa JapanWang Min6. Earthquakes in Historical ContextGregory Smits 7. The Centre of the Shogun’s Realm: Building Nihonbashi Timon ScreechPart III: Tokugawa Society 8. The Samurai in Tokugawa JapanConstantine Vaporis9. Villages and Farmers in the Tokugawa Period Watanabe Takashi10. Popular Movements in the Edo Period: Peasants, Peasant Uprisings, and the Development of Lawful PetitionsTaniyama Masamichi11. Coastal Whaling and Its Impact on Early Modern JapanJakobina Arch 12. Outcastes and Their Social Roles in Tokugawa JapanMaren EhlersPart IV: Family, Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction 13. Women in Cities and TownsAmy Stanley14. Childhood in Tokugawa JapanKristin Williams15. Growing Small Bodies at the Point of Skin: Young Children’s Bodies and Health in Sacred SkinscapeWilliam LindseyPart V: Tokugawa Economy16. Food Fights, But It’s Always for Fun in Early Modern JapanEric Rath17. The Silk Weavers of Nishijin: Wage-Laborers in the Tokugawa World Gary P. Leupp18. The Marketing of Human Waste and Urban-fringe Agriculture around the Tokugawa CitiesTajima KayoPart VI: Tokugawa Japan in the World19. Japan and the World in Tokugawa MapsKären Wigen20. Nihonmachi in Southeast Asia in the Late Sixteenth-Early Seventeenth CenturiesTravis Seifman21. Rethinking Ezo-chi, the Ainu, and Tokugawa Japan in Global PerspectiveNoémy Godefroy22. The Opening of the Tokugawa World and Japan’s Foreign Relations: The Visits of Korean Embassies to JapanNakao Hiroshi23. Early Modern Ryukyu Between China and JapanWatanabe Miki24. Dutch East India Company Relations With Tokugawa JapanAdam Clulow25. The Presence of Black People in Japan During the Edo PerioFujita Midori26. Seventeenth Century Chinese Émigrés and Sino-Japanese Cultural ExchangesShyu Shing-ching27. Selective Sakoku? Tantalizing Hints of Japanese in China after the Tokugawa Maritime ProhibitionXing Hang28. Tokugawa Japan and the Rise of Modern Racial Thought in the WestRotem KownerPart VII: The Performing Arts and Sport29. The Musical World of Tokugawa Japan Alison Tokita30. Visual Disability and Musical Culture in Edo-Period JapanGerald Groemer31. Tominaga Nakamoto (1715-1746) and Gagaku (Court Music)Intō Kazuhiro32. Staging Senseless Violence: Early Jōruri Puppet Theater and the Culture of PerformanceKeller Kimbrough33. Rural Kabuki and the Imagination of Japanese Identity in the Late Tokugawa PeriodWilliam Fleming34. Sumo Wrestling in the Tokugawa Period Lee ThompsonPart VIII: Art and Literature 35. Shunga in Tokugawa Society and Culture Andrew Gerstle36. Uses of Shunga and Ukiyoe in the Tokugawa PeriodHayakawa Monta37. Two Paths of Love in the Fiction of Ihara SaikakuDavid Gundry38. Furuta Oribe: Controversial Daimyo Tea MasterKaminishi Ikumi39. Grass Booklets and the Roots of Manga: Comic Books in the Tokugawa PeriodGlynne Walley40. An Iconology of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering: Image, Text, and Communities in Tokugawa-Era JapanKameda-Madar Kazuko41. The Folk Worldview of Chronicles of the Eight Dog Heroes of the Satomi Clan of NansōInoue Atsushi42. Okakura Kakuzō and the Osaka Painting Schools of the Tokugawa Era Nakatani Nobuo43. The Rise and Fall and Spring of HaikuAdam L. KernPart IX: Religion and Thought44. Christians, Christianity and Kakure Kirishitan in Japan (1549-1868)Jan Leuchtenberger45. Pilgrimage in Tokugawa JapanBarbara Ambros46. Structuring the Canon: Exceptionalism and KokugakuMark McNally47. The Image of Susanoo in Hirata Atsutane’s Koshiden Tajiri Yūichirō48. Itō Jinsai and the Origins of Classical Learning (Kogaku) Tsuchida Kenjirō49. Mapping Intellectual History: The Neo-Confucian Schools of Zhu Xi, Wang Yangming, and Ogyū Sorai as Mirrored in Islamic ThoughtKojima Yasunori50. Emperor-Centrism and the Historiography of the Mito SchoolKojima Tsuyoshi51. Heigaku and Bushidō: Military Thought in the Tokugawa WorldMaeda Tsutomu52. Confucian Views of Life and DeathTakahashi FumihiroPart X: Education and Science53. Tokugawa Popular EducationBrian Platt54. The Greater Learning for Women and Women’s Moral Education in Tokugawa JapanYabuta Yutaka 55. "Reading" of the Chinese Classics and the History of Thought in the Edo Period Nakamura Shunsaku56. Health, Disease and Epidemics in Late Tokugawa JapanWilliam Johnston57. Doctors and Herbal Medicine in Tokugawa JapanMachi Sunjurō58. The History of Natural History in Tokugawa JapanFederico Marcon59. Attitudes Toward Celestial Events in Tokugawa JapanSugi TakeshiPart XI: Epilogue60. From Feudalism to Meritocracy?: Growing Demand for Competent and Efficient Government in the Late Tokugawa PeriodMatsuda Koichirō61. Shōin and Changing Worldviews in the Late Tokugawa PeriodKirihara Kenshin62. The Shinsengumi: Shadows and Light in the Last Days of the Tokugawa ShogunateKimura Yukihiko63. Katsu Kaishū and Yokoi Shōnan: Late Tokugawa Imaginings of a More Democratic JapanWilliam Steele64. Confucian Education in the Formative Years of the Meiji Leaders and Its Modern ImplicationsDe-min Tao