This study is an unique approach to social and cultural history of Japan through the scope of food and food ways. In this book-length study of food markets in t

This study is an unique approach to social and cultural history of Japan through the scope of food and food ways. In this book-length study of food markets in t

How did one dine with a shogun? Or make solid gold soup, sculpt with a fish, or turn seaweed into a symbol of happiness? In this fresh and fascinating look at J

Spanning nearly six hundred years of Japanese food culture, Japanese Foodways, Past and Present considers the production, consumption, and circulation of Japane

Alternate attendance (sankin kotai) was one of the central institutions of Edo-period (1603–1868) Japan and one of the most unusual examples of a system of en