Tag Archives: early modern Japan

Travel Grants: UC Berkeley Conference, Tokugawa and the Visual World

Posted on September 19, 2016 by Paula

The Regime and the Scene. Or, What Difference Did the Tokugawa Shogunate Make to the Visual World of Early Modern Japan? Friday, October 28, 2016 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Women’s Faculty Club Lounge University of California, Berkeley http://tokugawavisualworld2016.weebly.com/ “Visual … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Paula

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 … Continue reading →

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Conference: The Life and Legacy of Tokugawa Ieyasu

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Paula

A conference to examine the legacy of Tokugawa Ieyasu will be held at Durham University on the 7th-9th of June to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Ieyasu’s death falling this year. We are delighted to invite you to join us. The … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Values, Identity and Equality in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan

Posted on January 17, 2016 by Paula

Values, Identity, and Equality in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan Edited by Peter Nosco, University of British Columbia, James E. Ketelaar University of Chicago, and Yasunori Kojima, International Christian University, Tokyo The chapters in this volume variously challenge a number of … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Paula

The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan FEDERICO MARCON Between the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline of medicine, produced knowledge that … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan

Posted on November 1, 2015 by LM

Via University of Hawai’i Press. Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan Author: McNally, Mark Thomas; 344pp. November 2015 Cloth – Price: $67.00 ISBN: 978-0-8248-5284-9 Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan probes the … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Ukiyo-e animated gifs

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Paula

Just last month we posted on an artist’s rendering of 8-bit Japan nostalgic in GIFs, and lo and behold, this month we stumble across Edo-period early modern nostalgia in GIFs that bring ukiyo-e to life! The artist, who goes by … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Sangaku Proofs: A Japanese Mathematician at Work

Posted on August 2, 2015 by Paula

James Unger Sangaku Proofs: A Japanese Mathematician at Work During many decades of national isolation, a mathematical tradition called wasan flourished in Japan independently of the advances of Enlightenment mathematics and virtually unknown to Europeans before the Meiji Restoration. Yet … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: A Cultural History of Translation in Early Modern Japan

Posted on May 17, 2015 by Paula

The translation of texts has played a formative role in Japan’s history of cultural exchange as well as the development of literature, and indigenous legal and religious systems. This is the first book of its kind, however, to offer a … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Paula

Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan Edited by Matthias Hayek, Paris Diderot University and Annick Horiuchi, Paris Diderot University Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan endeavors to elucidate the mechanisms by which a growing number of men and … Continue reading →

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