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Title Mediated by gifts : politics and society in Japan, 1350-1850 / edited by Martha Chaiklin
Published Leiden : Brill, 2016

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Series Brill's Japanese studies library ; volume 57
Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 57.
Contents Introduction / Martha Chaiklin -- Unexpected paths: gift giving and the Nara excursions of the Muromachi shoguns / Kaneko Hiraku, translated by Lee Butler -- Gifts for the emperor: signposts of continuity and change in Japan's fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Lee Butler -- Physician Yamashina Tokitsune's healing gifts / Andrew Edmund Goble -- Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and the formation of Edo Castle: rituals of giving / Cecilia Segawa Seigle -- Mitsui Echigoya's gifts to the Tokugawa Shogunate / Ozawa Emiko, translated by Lee Butler -- Travel and gift exchange in nineteenth-century Japan / Laura Nenzi -- Gift exchange and reciprocity: understanding antiquarian/ethnographic communities within and beyond Tokugawa borders / Margarita Winkel
Summary 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
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Gifts -- Political aspects -- Japan -- History
Gifts -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History
Ceremonial exchange -- Japan -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions.
Ceremonial exchange
Gifts -- Social aspects
Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Chaiklin, Martha, 1960- editor.
LC no. 2016045800
ISBN 9789004336117
9004336117