Tools of Culture: Japan's Cultural, Intellectual, Medical, and Technological Contacts in East Asia, 1100s-1500s

by Haruko Nishioka Wakabayashi, Association for Asian Studies Staff, Kenneth R. Robinson

Book Overview

This important collection addresses aspects of Japanese human and material interactions in East Asia from the late eleventh through the late sixteenth centuries, a period coincident with Japan's late classical and medieval eras. The collection broadens our understanding of Japanese history, by departing from a traditional focus on Japanese history as a phenomenon essentially limited to the Japanese archipelago, and expands the horizons of that history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0924304537
• ISBN13: 9780924304538
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Association for Asian Studies
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"