Ebook: A cultural history of translation in early modern Japan

"Translation, in one form or another, has been present in all major exchanges between cultures in history. Japan is no exception, and it is part of the standard narrative of Japanese history that translation has played a formative role in the development of indigenous legal and religious systems as well as literature, from early contact with China to the present-day impact of world literatures in Japanese translation. Yet translation is by no means a mainstream area of study for historians of Japan and there are no monograph-length overviews of the history of pre-modern Japanese translation available in any language"--;Cover; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; A note on dates, transliteration, and names; Introduction; 1 Language and society in Tokugawa Japan ; 2 Classical Japanese texts ; 3 'Chinese' texts ; 4 Translation of Western languages ; 5 Late Tokugawa 'crisis translation' ;Conclusion; References; Index of names; Index of titles; Index of subjects