Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability

by Morgan Pitelka

Book Overview

In Spectacular Accumulation, Morgan Pitelka investigates the significance of material culture and sociability in late sixteenth-century Japan, focusing in particular on the career and afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616), the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. The story of Ieyasu illustrates the close ties between people, things, and politics and offers us insight into the role of material culture in the shift from medieval to early modern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824876814
• ISBN13: 9780824876814
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"