A small round man with a large round face the color of old bronze landed in Manhattan last week from the 23-year-old Mauretania. This personage is the head of a Japanese house which for 264 years was ...

The Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 is widely regarded as the moment that unified Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate. Yet the ...

Tokugawa Japan as a model for the world : the past as prologue -- Author's introduction : the changing image of the Tokugawa period -- Part I. Rakuchū rakugai-zu : paintings of scenes in and around ...

There are episodes in history whose lesson seems horribly clear: Our deepest delight is causing others to suffer, and if we can do it under color of right and goodness, so much the better. Was the ...

The study of Tokugawa-period trade policy poses problems because of the poor survival of archives. Rōjū took their records with them when they vacated office, as did bugyō in Nagasaki. Trade records ...

Toward a social history of Sōtō Zen -- Registering the family, memorializing the ancestors : the Zen temple and the parishioner household -- Funerary Zen : managing the dead in the world beyond -- The ...