Describes Kawai Tsugunosuke's journey in 1859 via his travel diaries, the people he encountered, his intellectual growth and especially his eagerness to make contact with foreigners trading with Japan.

Examines the Samurai cuisine in the early modern period and its influence in the development of modern Japanese cuisine and customs

This paper examines how kyō or eccentricity constituted an important part of the creativity of both Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694), the greatest haikai (comic linked verse) poet, and Ōta Nampo (1749–1823), the best kyōshikyōbun ...

This article seeks to suggest in detail how Chinese medical practices became acceptable to the nineteenth-century nativist Hirata Atsutane, whose extreme anti-Chinese bias made such acceptance highly problematic. A related ...