“Vaporis has assembled an enormous amount of information—much of it heretofore unavailable in English—and presented it in an engaging and accessible format.”
(Karl Friday, Monumenta Nipponica 75:2 (220) 351-52.)
Selected Outstanding Academic Title by Choice, January 2010.
Nominated and long-listed for International Convention of Asia triannual Scholars (ICAS) Book Prize, 2011.
Second edition (revised). First edition selected Winner of the Franklin R. Buchan Prize for Curricular Materials (Association for Asian Studies, 2013). This book was the Routledge’s Editor’s Pick: “An absolute cracker of a book!”
Coming soon!
Samurai.
Warriors in an Age of Peace.
A history of the Tokugawa years (1600-1868) through the lives of thirteen samurai!
Japanese edition of Tour of Duty. Published by Kashiwa shobō, 2010. Reviewed in Japanese dailies Mainichi shimbun, Asahi shimbun, and Nihon keizai shimbun.
(Below: The red label on the book as displayed at a Tokyo bookstore reads: “This book was reviewed in the Asahi newspaper on July 18.)
Published by Harvard Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1994.
“Constantine Vaporis has done the field a real service by brining his enviable archival skills to this important topic.” (Karen Wigen, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 56, 2 (1996): 552-59.)
“With the publication of this book, one more nail is driven into the coffin of the view of the Edo state as all-powerful and draconian. From a variety of angles, Constantine Vaporis uses the theory and practice of travel in the Tokugawa period as a means of understanding the desire as well as the capacity of the Japanese state to intervene in the lives of its subjects.… It is an exciting and sound piece of research.” (Joshua A. Fogel, Journal of Asian Studies 55, 1 (1996): 179-80.
Recommended by Jilly Triganou as one of her favorite books, on Shephered.com: