Tools of culture : Japan's cultural, intellectual, medical, and technological contacts in East Asia, 1000-1500s / edited by Andrew Edmund Goble, Kenneth R. Robinson, and Haruko Wakabayashi.

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Association for Asian Studies, [2009], ©2009.

xix, 315 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Jōjin's discoveries in Song China / Robert Borgen -- Poetry in Chinese as a diplomatic art in premodern East Asia / Murai Shōsuke -- A Japanese trade mission to Chosŏn Korea, 1537-1540 : the Sonkai tokai nikki and the Korean tribute system / Kenneth R. Robinson -- The Mongol invasions and the making of the iconography of foreign enemies : the case of Shikaumi jinja engi / Haruko Wakabayashi -- Lanxi Daolong (1213-1278) at Kenchōji : Chinese contributions to the making of medieval Japanese rinzai zen / Martin Collcutt -- Chinese trade ceramics in medieval Japan / Saeki Kōji -- China as classic text : Chinese books and twelfth-century Japanese collectors / Ivo Smits -- Volumes of knowledge : observations on Song-period printed medical texts / Kosoto Hiroshi -- Kajiwara Shōzen (1265-1337) and the medical silk road : Chinese and Arabic influences on medieval Japanese medicine / Andrew Edmund Goble.

Includes bibliographical references and index.