Japan Before Tokugawa: Political Consolidation and Economic Growth, 1500-1650

These essays cover the following topics: how two great daimyo came into existence and held on to their extensive domains; two special aspects--house laws and regulation of trade--of daimyo rule; the political, social, and economic policies of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi; the maturation of the bakuhan system under the Tokugawa shogunate; and the nature of urban and economic growth that accompanied the transformation of the political order from Chusei to Kinsei times.