Dear Peter,
At Paul’s prompting (even though I do happen to be on the songyuan listserve), let me suggest first of all my HJAS article (Dec 2014 issue) on Song-Japan trade and the scholarship cited therein. The most important studies (focused on economic & cultural exchange, not so much on diplomacy) are:
Yamauchi Shinji 山内晋次, Nara Heianki no Nihon to Ajia 奈良平安期の日本とアジア (Tokyo: Yoshikawa kōbunkan, 2003)
Enomoto Wataru 榎本渉, Higashi Ajia kaiiki to Nihon kōryū: kyū-jyūshi seiki 東アジア海域と日本交流：九—十四世紀 (Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, 2007)
Hotate Michihisa 保立道久, Ōgon kokka: Higashi Ajia to Heian Nihon 黄金国家：東アジアと平安日本 (Tokyo: Aoki shoten, 2004)
Charlotte von Verschuer’s Across the Perilous Sea: Japanese Trade with China and Korea from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries (Cornell, 2006; originally published In 1988) is probably the most accessible thing in English, although it’s largely descriptive (there’s a 2014 revised edition in French, nicely illustrated). The 20-volume Ningbo Project (published under the general title 東アジア海叢書 and the general editorship of Kojima Tsuyoshi) of course has many essays on all manner of Song-Japan relations. Lastly I would mention as the best bibliographic reference for East Asian maritime history (mostly Japanese, to be sure, but also including Chinese & Western language materials) the following: Momoki Shirō 桃木至郎, ed., Kaiiki Ajia shi kenkyū nyūmon 海域アジア研究入門 (Tokyo: Iwanami shoten, 2008)
All best, Richard
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Can anyone offer suggestions about authoritative accounts (in any language) of relations between Song China and Japan?
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Dear Peter,
At Paul’s prompting (even though I do happen to be on the songyuan listserve), let me suggest first of all my HJAS article (Dec 2014 issue) on Song-Japan trade and the scholarship cited therein. The most important studies (focused on economic & cultural exchange, not so much on diplomacy) are:
Yamauchi Shinji 山内晋次, Nara Heianki no Nihon to Ajia 奈良平安期の日本とアジア (Tokyo: Yoshikawa kōbunkan, 2003)
Enomoto Wataru 榎本渉, Higashi Ajia kaiiki to Nihon kōryū: kyū-jyūshi seiki 東アジア海域と日本交流：九—十四世紀 (Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, 2007)
Hotate Michihisa 保立道久, Ōgon kokka: Higashi Ajia to Heian Nihon 黄金国家：東アジアと平安日本 (Tokyo: Aoki shoten, 2004)
Charlotte von Verschuer’s Across the Perilous Sea: Japanese Trade with China and Korea from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries (Cornell, 2006; originally published In 1988) is probably the most accessible thing in English, although it’s largely descriptive (there’s a 2014 revised edition in French, nicely illustrated). The 20-volume Ningbo Project (published under the general title 東アジア海叢書 and the general editorship of Kojima Tsuyoshi) of course has many essays on all manner of Song-Japan relations. Lastly I would mention as the best bibliographic reference for East Asian maritime history (mostly Japanese, to be sure, but also including Chinese & Western language materials) the following: Momoki Shirō 桃木至郎, ed., Kaiiki Ajia shi kenkyū nyūmon 海域アジア研究入門 (Tokyo: Iwanami shoten, 2008)
All best, Richard
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Subject: [Song-Yuan Listserv] Song and Japan
Can anyone offer suggestions about authoritative accounts (in any language) of relations between Song China and Japan?
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