Endorsements
"This panoramic study is a magnificent achievement that addresses virtually every dimension of Japan’s modern history, towering above all other works of its kind. [McClain] is both landscape painter and miniaturist, illuminating core trends with the telling anecdote and the personal stories and travails of ordinary people as well as the high and mighty. He provides a finely shaded, deeply intelligent, and eminently fair assessment of a country whose historical legacy has shadowed it throughout its often torturous transformation from a semifeudal polity to a modern state."
—Steven I. Levine, University of Montana, in Library Journal
"This is a story with room for the pronouncements of emperors, the poetry of Basho, and the demands of labor leaders…A remarkable achievement."
—Publishers Weekly
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