Originally published in 1920, this is the first English text edition. A copious work containing Japan’s early land system, slave economy, the monastic state, the early phase of Heian, manorial system, rise and fall of Taira and Minamoto clans, Shugo and Jito systems, foreign trade, the Portuguese, Japanese pirate fleet, rise of Sakai and Hakata, rise of gold and silver, unification by Hideyoshi, invasion of Korea, Japan abroad, persecution of Catholics and their Rebellion, the trade at Nagasaki, luxury of Genroku, economic feudalism, Za system, Fudasashi, marine transport, restoration, Russia and the North, Tempo reforms, guilds, land taxation, Myomoku-Kin and more.