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Pax Tokugawana : the cultural flowering of Japan, 1603-1853 / Haga Tōru ; translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter.

by Haga, Tōru, 1931-2020, author.

Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2021.

Japan -- Civilization -- 1600-1868.

Japan -- Intellectual life -- 1600-1868.

9784866581484 (hardcover)

4866581484 (hardcover)

Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)

371 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.

First English edition.

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 Kyoto ; "Come, let us be crazy" : izumo no okuni and ryūtatsu kouta ; Kōetsu, sōtatsu, and the classical revival -- Part II. All roads lead to Edo : Bashō's praise of Tokugawa ; An enlightened practical scientist : Kaibara Ekiken, gazetteerist and naturalist ; A visitor in the Sakoku era : Kaempfer and Genroku Japan ; Winter 1709 : east-west dialogue in the Christian compound -- Part III. The century of natural history : eighteenth-century Japan and the west ; A letter with no addressee : Sugita Gempaku, nine times blessed old man ; Reading Sugita Gempaku's memoir : Dawn of Western Science in Japan ; Pictures of peace -- Part IV. Poet of the Pax Tokugawana : Yosa Buson ; Buson's youthful elegy : "Mourning the old sage Hokuju" ; Women becoming more and more beautiful : Buson and Harunobu ; Coping with the long peace : young rowdies, Ōta Nampo ; The French Revolution and Japan : mild spring weather in a "Little Ice Age" -- Part V. Toward the end of the Pax Tokugawana ; Tokugawa colors and design -- Afterword -- Chronology.

"This ambitious work provides a comprehensive review of those two and a half centuries of peace - what the author calls the "Pax Tokugawana" - and the expansion of learning and culture during those years. Marshalling wide-ranging scholarship and unflagging enthusiasm, the author has made a major contribution to comparative cultural studies and provided fresh ways to approach long-accepted ideas. This volume represents the culmination of a lifetime's research by a brilliant, award-winning scholar." -- Back cover.

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