Breaking Barriers: Travel and the State in Early Modern Japan
- ISBN-10
- 0674081072
- ISBN-13
- 9780674081079
- Series
- Breaking Barriers
- Category
- Japan
- Pages
- 412
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- Harvard Univ Asia Center
- Author
- Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
Description
Constantine Vaporis challenges the notion that an elaborate and restrictive system of travel regulations in Tokugawa Japan prevented widespread travel. Instead, he maintains that a "culture of movement" developed in that era.
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