Introduction / By Gary P. Leupp, De-min Tao
Part I National reunification, 1563-1603
Chapter One: The three unifiers of the state (tenka): Nobunaga (1534-82), Hideyoshi (1536-98), and Ieyasu (1543-1616) / By Fujita Tatsuo
Chapter Two: Japan's invasions of Korea in 1592-98 and the Hideyoshi regime / By Nam-Lin Hur
Chapter Three: The life and afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) / By Morgan Pitelka
Part II: The physical landscape
Chapter Four: Water management in Tokugawa Japan / By Murata Michihito
Chapter Five: The King Yu legend and flood control in Tokugawa Japan / By Wang Min
Chapter Six: Earthquakes in historical context / By Gregory Smits
Chapter Seven: The center of the shogun's realm Building Nihonbashi * / By Timon Screech
Part III: Tokugawa society
Chapter Eight: The samurai in Tokugawa Japan / By Constantine Vaporis
Chapter Nine: Villages and farmers in the Tokugawa period / By Watanabe Takashi
Chapter Ten: Popular movements in the Edo period Peasants, peasant uprisings, and the development of lawful petitions / By Taniyama Masamichi
Chapter Eleven: Coastal whaling and its impact on early modern Japan / By Jakobina Arch
chapter Chapter Twelve: Outcastes and their social roles in Tokugawa Japan / By Maren Ehlers
Part IV: Family, gender, sexuality, and reproduction
Chapter Thirteen: Women in cities and towns / By Amy Stanley
Chapter Fourteen: Childhood in Tokugawa Japan / By Kristin Williams
Chapter Fifteen: Growing small bodies at the point of skin Young children's bodies and health in sacred skinscape / By William Lindsey
Part V: Tokugawa economy
Chapter Sixteen: Food fights, but it's always for fun in early modern Japan / By Eric Rath
Chapter Seventeen: The silk weavers of Nishijin Wage-laborers in the Tokugawa world / By Gary P. Leupp
Chapter Eighteen: The marketing of urban human waste and urban-fringe agriculture around the Tokugawa cities / By Tajima Kayo
Part VI: Tokugawa Japan in the world
Chapter Nineteen: Japan and the world in Tokugawa maps / By Kären Wigen
Chapter Twenty: Nihonmachi in Southeast Asia in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / By Travis Seifman
Chapter Twenty-one: Rethinking Ezo-chi, the Ainu, and Tokugawa Japan in a global perspective / By Noémi Godefroy
Chapter Twenty-two: The opening of the Tokugawa world and Japan's foreign relations The visits of Korean embassies to Japan / By Nakao Hiroshi
Chapter Twenty-three: Early modern Ryukyu between China and Japan / By Watanabe Miki
Chapter Twenty-four: Dutch East India company relations with Tokugawa Japan / By Adam Clulow
Chapter Twenty-five: The presence of black people in Japan during the Edo period / By Fujita Midori
Chapter Twenty-six: Seventeenth-century Chinese émigrés and Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges / By Shing-Ching Shyu
Chapter Twenty-seven: Selective Sakoku? Tantalizing hints of the Japanese in China after the Tokugawa maritime prohibition / By Xing Hang
Chapter Twenty-eight: Tokugawa Japan and the rise of modern racial thought in the West / By Rotem Kowner
Part VII: The performing arts and sport
Chapter Twenty-nine: The musical world of Tokugawa Japan / By Alison Tokita
Chapter Thirty: Visual disability and musical culture in Edo-period Japan / By Gerald Groemer
Chapter Thirty-one: Tominaga Nakamoto (1715-46) and Gagaku (court music) / By Intō Kazuhiro
Chapter Thirty-Two: Staging senseless violence Early jōruri puppet theater and the culture of performance / By Keller Kimbrough
Chapter Thirty-Three: Rural kabuki and the imagination of Japanese identity in the late Tokugawa Period / By William Fleming
Chapter Thirty-four: Sumo wrestling in the Tokugawa period / By Lee Thompson, Nitta Ichirō
Part VIII: Art and literature
Chapter Thirty-five: Shunga in Tokugawa society and culture / By Andrew Gerstle
Chapter Thirty-six: Uses of shunga and ukiyo-e in the Tokugawa period / By Hayakawa Monta
Chapter Thirty-seven: The two paths of love in the fiction of Ihara Saikaku / By David Gundry
Chapter Thirty-eight: Furuta Oribe Controversial daimyo tea-master / By Kaminishi Ikumi
Chapter Thirty-nine: Grass booklets and the roots of manga Comic books in the Tokugawa period / By Glynne Walley
Chapter Forty: An iconology of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering Image, text, and communities in Tokugawa-era Japan / By Kazuko Kameda-Madar
Chapter Forty-one: The folk worldview of Chronicles of the Eight Dog Heroes of the Satomi Clan of Nansō / By Inoue Atsushi
Chapter Forty-two: Okakura Kakuzō and the Osaka Painting Schools of the Tokugawa era / By Nakatani Nobuo
Chapter Forty-three: The rise and fall and spring of haiku / By Adam L. Kern
Part IX: Religion and thought
Chapter Forty-four: Christians, Christianity, and Kakure Kirishitan in Japan (1549-1868) / By Jan Leuchtenberger
Chapter Forty-five: Pilgrimage in Tokugawa Japan / By Barbara Ambros / Chapter Forty-six: Structuring the canon Exceptionalism and Kokugaku / By Mark McNally
Chapter Forty-seven: The image of Susanoo in Hirata Atsutane's Koshiden / By Tajiri Yūichirō
Chapter Forty-eight: Itō Jinsai and the origins of Classical Learning (Kogaku) / By Tsuchida Kenjirō
chapter Chapter Forty-nine: Mapping intellectual history / By Kojima Yasunori
Chapter Fifty: Emperor-centrism and the historiography of the Mito School By Kojima Tsuyoshi
Chapter fifty-one: Military thought in the Tokugawa world / By Maeda Tsutomu
Chapter Fifty-two: Confucian views of life and death / By Takahashi Fumihiro
Part X: Education and Science
Chapter Fifty-three: Tokugawa popular education / By Brian Platt
Chapter Fifty-four: The Greater Learning for Women and women's moral education in Tokugawa Japan / By Yabuta Yutaka
Chapter Fifty-five: Reading of the Chinese classics and the history of thought in the Edo period / By Nakamura Shunsaku
Chapter Fifty-six: Health, disease, and epidemics in late Tokugawa Japan / By William Johnston
Chapter Fifty-seven: Doctors and herbal medicine in Tokugawa Japan / By Machi Senjurō
Chapter Fifty-eight: The history of natural history in Tokugawa Japan / By Federico Marcon
Chapter Fifty-nine: Attitudes toward celestial events in Tokugawa Japan / By Sugi Takeshi
Part X: Epilogue
Chapter Sixty: From feudalism to meritocracy? Growing demand for competent and efficient government in the late Tokugawa period / By Matsuda Kōichirō
Chapter Sixty-one: Shōin and changing worldviews in the late Tokugawa period / By Kirihara Kenshin
Chapter Sixty-two: The Shinsengumi Shadows and light in the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate / By Kimura Sachihiko
Chapter Sixty-three: Katsu Kaishū and Yokoi Shōnan Late Tokugawa imaginings of a more democratic Japan * / By M. William Steele
Chapter Sixty-four: Confucian education in the formative years of the Meiji leaders and its modern implications 1 / By De-min Ta.