Blind in early modern Japan : disability, medicine, and identity

• Material Type: 図書
• ISBN: 9780472075485 hardcover; 9780472055487 paperback
• Title: Blind in early modern Japan : disability, medicine, and identity
• Author/Editor: Wei Yu Wayne Tan
• Series Title: Corporealities: discourses of disability
• Author Heading: Tan, Wei Yu Wayne
• Publication, Distribution, etc.: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press (出版)
• Publication Date: 2022; 著作権日付 : ©2022
• Publication Date (W3CDTF): 2022
• Extent: xx, 245 pages
• Other physical details: illustrations, maps
• Size: 24 cm
• Place of Publication (Country Code): US
• Text Language Code: eng
• Genre/Form Terms: History.
• Content Type: text
• Media Type: unmediated
• Carrier Type: volume
• Subject Heading: Blind--Japan--Social conditions--Edo period, 1600-1868; Blind--Japan--Occupations--Edo period, 1600-1868; Guilds--Japan--Edo period, 1600-1868; Ophthalmology--Japan--History; Corporations--Japon--1600-1868 (Époque d'Edo); Ophtalmologie--Japon--Histoire; Ophthalmology.; Japan.
• LCC: HV2113
• DDC: 362.4/10952
• NDLC: EG61
• Target Audience: 一般
• Note (Content): While the loss of sight--whether in early modern Japan or now--may be understood as a disability, blind people in the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) could thrive because of disability. The blind of the era were prominent across a wide range of professions, and through a strong guild structure were able to exert contractual monopolies over certain trades. Blind in Early Modern Japan illustrates the breadth and depth of those occupations, the power and respect that accrued to the guild members, and the lasting legacy of the Tokugawa guilds into the current moment. The book illustrates why disability must be assessed within a particular society's social, political, and medical context, and also the importance of bringing medical history into conversation with cultural history. A Euro-American-centric disability studies perspective that focuses on disability and oppression, the author contends, risks overlooking the unique situation in a non-Western society like Japan in which disability was constructed to enhance blind people's power. He explores what it meant to be blind in Japan at that time, and what it says about current frameworks for understanding disability
• Note (Bibliography): Includes bibliographical references and index
• Collection (particular): 日本関係外国語図書
• Holding library: 国立国会図書館
• Call No.: EG61-D20
• Data Provider (Database): 国立国会図書館 : 国立国会図書館蔵書; https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp
• Bibliographic ID (NDL): 031691417; http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/031691417
• OCLC No.: 1347728456; https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1347728456
• Cataloging Rule: RDA
• Bibliographic Record Category (NDL): 211

• Contents: 1. Japanese ophthalmology: medical studies of eye conditions2. Eye medicines: the popular culture of cure3. The blind guild: status and power...