The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Preindustrial Japan

This book provides an excellent coverage of the ways and means of how the Tokugawa govenment worked and functioned. The author proves to be very skilled in explaining each element of the old samurai form of govenment that basically ran Japan for 250 years and at least I came out with a far greater understanding of how and why each element of such government existed. The book proves to be well written although unless you are interested in such subject, most other readers may find the book to be bit on the dry side.