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This book offers the first cultural history of translation in Japan during the Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.

The role of translation in the formation of modern Japanese identities has become one of the most exciting new fields of inquiry in Japanese studies. This book

Through the schematic representation of translation, one language is rendered in contrast to another as if the two languages are clearly different and distinct.

Japan is often regarded as a 'culture of translation'. Oral and written translation has played a vital role in Japan over the centuries and led to a formidable

Karatani Kojin is one of Japan's leading critics. In his work as a theoretician, he has described Modernity as have few others; he has re-evaluated the literatu