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

From the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century Japan saw the creation, development, and apparent disappearance of the field of natural history, or "ho

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