Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability was published by the University of Hawaii Press in January of 2016.

The book is based on a decade of research into the documentary and material evidence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Japan, focusing on the ways in which elite samurai used art, swords, and other forms of material culture in politics and social relations.

The book examines:

• The acquisition and exchange of material objects and the acquisition and exchange of hostages
• The display of material culture at social and cultural rituals such as tea ceremonies, banquets, and celebrations of battlefield victories
• The exchange of gifts as a means of maintaining warrior social relations
• The practice of falconry, including the exchange of live falcons and acquisition of land for hunting
• Social rituals and war, such as head examination ceremonies
• The deification of Tokugawa Ieyasu using material culture
• The modern afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu and his material culture in museums