The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan is the essential reference to all facets of Japan past and present. Up to date, authoritative and wide ranging in scope, it

This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment in Western literature of the Heian period, the Japanese imperial court's golden age.

This study of the history of the book in Japan is an essential reference work covering all aspects of book production and the circulation of texts in pre-modern

This first volume to be published in The Cambridge History of Japan provides a general introduction to Japan's history during the first three quarters of the tw

The first English-language overview of the interaction of Buddhism and Shintō in Japanese culture.