Craft Culture in Early Modern JapanCrafts were central to daily life in early modern Japan. They were powerful carriers of knowledge, sociality, and identity, and how and from what materials they were made were matters of serious concern among all classes of society. In Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan, Christine M. E. Guth examines the network of forcesboth material and immaterialthat supported Japans rich, diverse, and aesthetically sophisticated artifactual culture between the