This book offers the first cultural history of translation in Japan during the Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.

The translation of texts has played a formative role in Japan's history of cultural exchange as well as the development of literature, and indigenous legal and

The translation of texts has played a formative role in Japan's history of cultural exchange as well as the development of literature, and indigenous legal and

Despite the central importance of translation in Japanese history there is no overview of the history of translation in Japan, and the student of Japanese histo

Keiko Shiba, a noted researcher in early modern Japanese history, has spent years collecting hundreds of travel diaries written by women during the reign of the