Mediated by Gifts

Politics and Society in Japan, 1350-1850

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2016
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-33515-8 (ISBN)

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Mediated by Gifts is a collection of essays by top scholars on gifts, giving and the social and political forces that shaped these practices in medieval and early modern Japan. The international assemblage of authors provides new insights into these deeply ingrained practices. The essays focus on topics such as shogunal visits to shrines and temples, exchanges between the imperial house and the shogun, a physician and his patients, the shogun, his vassals his and his ladies, the merchant class and the shogunal government, and between scholars and their cosmopolitan circle of contacts. This virtually unexplored view of Japanese history provides new tools to better elucidate both historical and modern Japan. Contributors are Lee Butler, Andrew Goble, Kaneko Hiraku, Laura Nenzi, Ozawa Emiko, Cecilia Segawa Siegle, and Margarita Winkel.

Martha Chaiklin, received her Ph.D from Leiden University. She currently teaches at Zayed University. Author of books and articles on Japan and the East India Companies, her most recent book is Ivory and the Aesthetics of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Palgrave, 2014).

Preface
List of Contributors
Chronologies

Introduction - Martha Chaiklin
1 Unexpected Paths: Gift Giving and the Nara Excursions of the Muromachi Shoguns - Kaneko Hiraku. Translated by Lee Butler
2 Gifts for the Emperor: Signposts of Continuity and Change in Japan’s Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries - Lee Butler
3 Physician Yamashina Tokitsune’s Healing Gifts - Andrew Edmund Goble
4 Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and the Formation of Edo Castle Rituals of Giving - Cecilia Segawa Seigle
5 Mitsui Echigoya’s Gifts to the Tokugawa Shogunate - Ozawa Emiko. Translated by Lee Butler
6 Travel and Gift Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Japan - Laura Nenzi
7 Gift Exchange and Reciprocity: Understanding Antiquarian/Ethnographic Communities Within and Beyond Tokugawa Borders - Margarita Winkel

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.12.2016
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Japanese Studies Library ; 57
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	541 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-33515-3 / 9004335153
ISBN-13	978-90-04-33515-8 / 9789004335158
Zustand	Neuware