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The first comprehensive book-length study in over half a century of the celebrated Japanese tea master Rikyu, considered the father of the Tea Ceremony (cha-no-yu) that fully contextualizes tea in politics, aesthetics, ritual and art

Considered by some to encompass the author's most significant research to data, this in-depth gateway study of Edo travel literature examines fifteen of the period's most notable travellers, some of whom are known as intellectuals, artists, and poets, or as folklorists and natural scientists, but rarely, if at all, as travellers. The author's research, which has considerable interdisciplinary appeal, takes us from civil servant and botanist Ka...

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Based on new documents, especially von Siebold's correspondence, written advice, and draft treaties that were placed in the public domain by the Brandenstein-Zeppelin family in 2002, the author argues that such is their significance a full reevaluation of von Siebold's role in the successful opening of Japan in the 1850s is now justified, and that new perspectives emerge in relation to twentieth-century scholarship that was dominated by the ex...