Bøger i Brill's Japanese Studies Libra serien

Early modern Japanese graphic narratives (kusazōshi) have found their go-to guide: this edited volume is the first in English to treat them in the round, uncovering fresh research avenues for the specialist and advancing provocations around comics, manga, and the literary.

The first book that focuses on the founding of territories as a main motif of Japanese mythology and argues for paying more attention to the territorial cults and their basically horizontal world view in general.

This volume tackles long-standing interpretative problems in the study of the Opening of Japan. Thinking outside of existing methods, concepts, and theories for writing about Japan and the world, the authors eschew national and global history for new organising frameworks.

Through looking at fragments of poetry on garbage and as graffiti, as well as at lesser-studied sources, like inscriptions on pottery, architecture, and especially wooden tablets known as mokkan, this book explores how both writing and literature spread through early Japan.

In Turbulent Streams: An Environmental History of Japan's Rivers, 1600-1930, Roderick I. Wilson shows how rivers have played an important role in Japanese history and moves beyond conventional stories of technological progress and environmental decline to provide a dynamic history of environmental relations.

Authorizing the Shogunate is a study of the symbolic construction of warrior order in the Heike monogatari corpus.

Shinchō-Kō ki, the work translated here into English under the title "The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga," is the most important source on the career of one of the best known figures in all of Japanese history--Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582), the first of the "Three Heroes" who unified Japan after a century of fragmentation and internecine bloodshed.