Overview :Here is the first full-length biography in English of the most important political figure in premodern Japan. Hideyoshi--peasant turned gene... Read More
Overview :How do ordinary people respond to prolonged terror? The convulsion of Japan's "Warring States" period between 1467 and 1568 destroyed the me... Read More
Overview :What Is a Family? explores the histories of diverse households during the Tokugawa period in Japan (1603-1868). The households studied here ... Read More
Overview :A quiet revolution in knowledge separated the early modern period in Japan from all previous time. After 1600, self-appointed investigators ... Read More