Professor Toby specializes in Premodern and early-modern Japan;
early-modern popular culture; seventeenth- to nineteenth-century
Japanese foreign relations; and intraregional relations in premodern
Asia. His current research interests include the representations
of the foreign in popular culture, 1550-1850; East Asian international
history; and village and rural credit. Selected publications
include State and Diplomacy in Early-Modern Japan: Asia in
the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu (Princeton University
Press, 1984; Stanford University Press, 1991); with Kuroda Hideo,
Gyoretsu to misemono (Asahi Newspaper Company Publishing,
1994); and "The Indianness of Iberia and Changing Iconographies
of Other," in Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting,
and Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other
Peoples in the Early Modern Era, ed. Stuart Schwartz (Cambridge
University Press, 1994) 323-351. Professor Toby received his
doctorate from Columbia University in 1977.
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