Introduction

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Russian Students at Leyden University : The Case of the Kurakin Brothers

1-13

Education, Schooling, and Religion in Early Modern Japan

15-34

In the Corpse and Beyond

35-46

''Fukushin'': Some Observations on Economic Development and the Imagination of the Body in Japanese Medicine of the Edo Period

47-58

Dutch Printing and Bookselling in the Golden Age

59-67

The Printing of Illustrated Books in Eighteenth Century Japan

69-83

Prostitution in Early Modem Amsterdam

85-98

Observations on the Manners and Customs of Eros in Eighteenth Century Edo : The World of Suzuki Harunobu's ''Fūryū Mane'emon''

99-135

Identity Achievement, Education, and Social Legitimation in Early Modern Dutch Society : The Case of Evert Willemsz (1622-23)

137-163

The Identity of ''Samurai'' in the Tokugawa Period

165-180

Bandits and Boundaries : Robber Bands and Secret Societies on the Dutch Frontier (1730-1778)

181-202

Miyako or Capital : The Emergence of the Urban City in Eighteenth Century Japan

203-207