Kubitori
(The Man Who Has Taken a Head)
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[bookreview] Timon Screech: The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan. (Cambridge University Press, 1996). In: Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 52, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 128-131.
  • An appreciative evaluation of this innovative study of Dutch imports to Japan during the Edo period and the Japanese reactions they called forth.
[bookreview] William Wayne Farris: Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japan's Military, 500-1300. (Harvard University Press, 1992). In: Journal of Military History, vol. 58, no. 1 (1994): 138-139.
  • A short assessment of this ambitious book.
[bookreview] Karl Friday: Hired Swords. The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan. (Stanford University Press, 1992). In: Journal of Military History, vol. 57 (1993): 134-136.
  • A short assessment of this fine monograph.
[bookreview] Bruno Lewin: Sprache und Schrift Japans (Leiden/New York: Brill, 1989). In: Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, vol. 25, no. 2 (1991): 282-285.
  • I was very happy to be asked to review this book, edited by one of the three truly great Japanologists of our time. (The other two are Donald Keene and Frits Vos.) Clicking the link will take you to the password-protected area. Request your password now.
[paper] "A Collosseum Built by a Dwarf: An Introduction to The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Its Author Edward Gibbon." Seminar paper for Prof. Idus Newby, University of Hawaii at Manoa, November 1988.
  • Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) is possibly the only Western historian, who, in his dedication to his craft, can approach the Grand Historian of China during the Han dynasty, Sima Qian (145? BC - 86? BC). . Request your password now.

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