While the loss of sight may be understood as a disability, blind people in the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) could thrive because of disability. The blind of the era were prominent across a wide range of professions. Blind in Early Modern Japan illustrates the breadth and depth of those occupations.
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Author(s): Wei Yu Wayne Tan
Number of pages: 264
Collection: Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability