In Engaging the Other Ronald P. Toby examines new discourses of cultural and ethnic identity and difference in early modern Japan (1550-1850), their articulation in literature, art, performance, law a
Ronald P. Toby argues that this isolationism was by no means so complete as traditionally supposed. He demonstrates that the Tokugawa shoguns conducted a foreign policy that established the shogunate'
Ronald P. Toby argues that this isolationism was by no means so complete as traditionally supposed. He demonstrates that the Tokugawa shoguns conducted a foreign policy that established the shogunate'
