TY - BOOK ID - 78494758 TI - Mediated by gifts : politics and society in Japan, 1350 - 1850 PY - 2017 SN - 9004335153 9004336117 9789004336117 9789004335158 PB - Leiden : Brill DB - UniCat KW - Gifts KW - Ceremonial exchange KW - Gift exchange KW - Exchange KW - Rites and ceremonies KW - Donations KW - Presents KW - Generosity KW - Manners and customs KW - Free material KW - Political aspects KW - History. KW - Social aspects KW - J4158 KW - J4150.50 KW - J4150.60 KW - History KW - Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- customs, folklore and culture -- gifts and offerings KW - Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural history -- Muromachi, Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods (1392-1615) KW - Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78494758 AB - Mediated by Gifts is a collection of essays by top scholars on gifts, giving and the social and political forces that shaped these practices in medieval and early modern Japan. The international assemblage of authors provides new insights into these deeply ingrained practices. The essays focus on topics such as shogunal visits to shrines and temples, exchanges between the imperial house and the shogun, a physician and his patients, the shogun, his vassals his and his ladies, the merchant class and the shogunal government, and between scholars and their cosmopolitan circle of contacts. This virtually unexplored view of Japanese history provides new tools to better elucidate both historical and modern Japan. Contributors are Lee Butler, Andrew Goble, Kaneko Hiraku, Laura Nenzi, Ozawa Emiko, Cecilia Segawa Siegle, and Margarita Winkel. ER -