Description
Book SynopsisThe blind of Tokugawa period Japan were prominent across a wide range of professions, and through a strong guild structure were able to exert contractual monopolies over certain trades.
Blind in Early Modern Japan illustrates the breadth and depth of those occupations, and the power and respect that accrued to the guild members.
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Map of Japan in the Tokugawa (Edo) Period (1600–1868)
- Map of Japan: Modern Regions and Prefectures
- Abbreviated List of Historical Periods
- A Note on Japanese Terminology and Names
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: A Personal Note
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Japanese Ophthalmology: Medical Studies of Eye Conditions
- Chapter 2
- Eye Medicines: The Popular Culture of Cure
- Chapter 3
- The Blind Guild: Status and Power
- Chapter 4
- Non-Membership and the Challenge of Authority
- Chapter 5
- Texts and Performances: The Significance of One Blind Musician’s Career
- Chapter 6
- Healing by Touch: Blind Acupuncturists and Masseurs
- Epilogue
- Onward to the Meiji Period
- Bibliography
- Index
