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Excerpt from A History of Japan, Vol. 3: The Tokugawa Epoch, 1652-1868 The serious student will naturally prefer to use this instalment Of Japan's history in conjunction with its predecessors, but those who begin here may be assured that the author's enthusiasm for his subject communicates itself in SO lively a fashion that both pleasure and instruction may be had by dipping into his pages at almost any point. Shoguns, statesmen, scholars, swordsmen, ladies wielding influence from their elegant seclusion, the tax-paying peasantry and the despised merchants are Shown to us in their mutual relations, vividly bringing the life Of the past before the eye Of imagination. The author passed away after having committed to writing this last result of his industrious researches among Japanese and foreign records but before he was able to see it published. The task of preparing the manuscript for the printer, adding a supple mentary chapter and reading the proofs was undertaken by the late Professor J. H. Longford, formerly Consul at Nagasaki and himself the author of The Story of Old Japan. He has enriched the text with many footnotes. Unfortunately he did not live to end the work and it was transferred to my less worthy hands for completion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
With over 60 contributions, The Tokugawa World presents the latest scholarship on early modern Japan from an international team of specialists in a volume that is unmatched in its breadth and scope. In its early modern period, under the Tokugawa shoguns, Japan was a world apart. For over two centuries the shogun’s subjects were forbidden to travel abroad and few outsiders were admitted. Yet in this period, Japan evolved as a nascent capitalist society that could rapidly adjust to its incorporation into the world system after its forced "opening" in the 1850s. The Tokugawa World demonstrates how Japan’s early modern society took shape and evolved: a world of low and high cultures, comic books and Confucian academies, soba restaurants and imperial music recitals, rigid enforcement of social hierarchy yet also ongoing resistance to class oppression. A world of outcasts, puppeteers, herbal doctors, samurai officials, businesswomen, scientists, scholars, blind lutenists, peasant rebels, tea-masters, sumo wrestlers, and wage workers. Covering a variety of features of the Tokugawa world including the physical landscape, economy, art and literature, religion and thought, and education and science, this volume is essential reading for all students and scholars of early modern Japan.
This illustrated, €three-part series covers the complex history of Japan and the Tokugawa era€from Iyetsuna's minority of 1651-63 through 1868 and the legacy of Iyeyasu. This is volume three.