Review of Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity

Authors

  • Adleen Crapo Sessional, University of Toronto, Worker-Organizer, Canadian Union of Public Employees

Abstract

Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity by Wei Yu Wayne Tan is a recent addition to the Corporealities series edited by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder. Tan’s slender but ambitious monograph tackles the subject of blindness in premodern Japan, and more specifically, the Tokugawa period (1600-1868), which roughly coincides with the early modern period in European history. It asks “what did it mean to be blind in Tokugawa society?” and the response will be of interest to early modernists, scholars of disability history, and experts on Tokugawa Japan.

Author Biography

Adleen Crapo, Sessional, University of Toronto, Worker-Organizer, Canadian Union of Public Employees

Sessional, University of Toronto, Worker-Organizer, Canadian Union of Public Employees

Published

2023-11-29

How to Cite

Crapo, A. (2023). Review of Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 12(3), 258–263. Retrieved from https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/1042

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Section

Reviews