A reference work that is at once comprehensive, stimulating, and potentially useful to both a specialist and non-specialist readership. . . . I cannot imagine a scholar or student in the field of Japanese studies who will not be grateful to Earl Miner for creating the happy combination of talent, energy, and expertise in the Miner-Odagiri-Morrell team, which made the Companion happen.--Eleanor Kerkham, Monumenta Nipponica [The] Companion is superb...