Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability
By Morgan Pitelka (NHC Fellow, 2011–12) In Spectacular Accumulation, Morgan Pitelka investigates the significance of material culture and sociability in late sixteenth-century Japan, focusing in particular on the career and afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616), the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. The story of Ieyasu illustrates the close ties between people, things, and politics and offers … Continued