Faculty and Staff
Ronald Toby
Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Culture
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.
Courses Taught | Vita | Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures