Harima Fudoki, dated to 714CE, is one of Japan’s earliest extant written records. It is a rich account of the people, places, natural resources and stories in

The first book that deals with the territorial cults of early Japan by focusing on how such cults were founded in ownerless regions. Numerous ancient Japanese m

Traditional Japanese Literature features a rich array of works dating from the very beginnings of the Japanese written language through the noted age of aristoc

Book one of the Man’yōshū (‘Anthology of Myriad Leaves’) continues Alexander Vovin’s new English translation of this 20-volume work originally compile

The majority of studies on the agricultural history of Japan have focused on the public administration of land and production, and rice, the principal source of