Mediated by Gifts is a collection of essays by top scholars on gifts, giving and the social and political forces that shaped these practices in medieval and early modern Japan.
Martha Chaiklin, received her Ph.D from Leiden University. She currently teaches at Zayed University. Author of books and articles on Japan and the East India Companies, her most recent book is Ivory and the Aesthetics of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Palgrave, 2014).