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Layered Sovereignties and Contested Seas: Recent Histories of Maritime Japan - Maiden Voyage: The Senzaimaru and the Creation of Modern Sino-Japanese Relations. By Joshua Fogel . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. 301 pp. ISBN: 9780520283305 (cloth, also available as e-book). - Empires on the Waterfront: Japan's Ports and Power, 1858–1899. By Catherine L. Phipps . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. 308 pp. ISBN: 9780674417168 (cloth). * - Lords of the Sea: Pirates, Violence, and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan. By Peter D. Shapinsky . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014. xiii, 327 pp. ISBN: 9781929280803 (cloth, also available in paper). - Defensive Positions: The Politics of Maritime Security in Tokugawa Japan. By Noell Wilson . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. xiii, 244 pp. ISBN: 9780674504349 (cloth). *

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Maiden Voyage: The Senzaimaru and the Creation of Modern Sino-Japanese Relations. By Joshua Fogel . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. 301 pp. ISBN: 9780520283305 (cloth, also available as e-book).
Empires on the Waterfront: Japan's Ports and Power, 1858–1899. By Catherine L. Phipps . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. 308 pp. ISBN: 9780674417168 (cloth). *
Lords of the Sea: Pirates, Violence, and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan. By Peter D. Shapinsky . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014. xiii, 327 pp. ISBN: 9781929280803 (cloth, also available in paper).

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2017

Thomas D. Conlan
Thomas D. Conlan*
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 76 , Issue 2 , May 2017 , pp. 518 - 529
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2 This approach was pioneered by scholars of South and Southeast Asian history. For an overview, and more on the concept of “water histories,” see Mukherjee, Rila, “Escape from Terracentrism: Writing a Water History,” Indian Historical Review 41, no. 1 (2014): 87–101 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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6 Shigesuke, Kasai, “Nankai tsūki” [A chronicle of the southern seas], in Shintei zōho shiseki shūran [The revised collection of collated historical sources], ed. Keizō, Kondo (Tokyo: Kondō shuppan, 1931), 30:456–59Google Scholar. Shapinsky suggests that this source is unreliable (p. 260), but this view is not shared by the editors of Ehime kenshi kodai II chūsei [Ehime prefectural history ancient period 2 medieval] (Matsuyama, 1984), 658 Google Scholar, who identify one of the signatories of this law code as Murakami Kaga Nyūdō Hisayoshi.

7 Thomas Conlan, “Sea Lords: Documents (Komonjo) of the Ōuchi and the Kōno—An Ōuchi Yoshioki Letter (1527) and Document of Praise (1511),” Komonjo, 2014, http://komonjo.princeton.edu/kono_ouchi/ (accessed March 6, 2017).

8 Yuzuru, Yamauchi, Zōho kaiteiban Setouchi no kaizoku: Murakami Takayoshi no tatakai [The battles of Murakami Takayoshi: A new and revised edition of the pirates of the Inland sea (Setouchi)] (Tokyo: Shinchō sensho, 2015), 61–64 Google Scholar.

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