{"product_id":"tokugawa-world-1","title":"Tokugawa World","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith over 60 contributions, \u003ci\u003eThe Tokugawa World \u003c\/i\u003epresents the latest scholarship on early modern Japan from an international team of specialists in a volume that is unmatched in its breadth and scope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003cem\u003eThe Tokugawa World\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCovering 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54262327738712,"sku":"9781138936850","price":390.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138936850.jpg?v=1770290114","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/tokugawa-world-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}