Gregory Smits.
Maritime Ryukyu, 1050-1650.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2018. Maps. 318 pp.
$68.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8248-7337-0. 
Reviewed by Michelle Damian (Monmouth College) Published on H-Japan (June, 2020) Commissioned by Martha Chaiklin
Nobuko Niwa.
〈僧侶らしさ〉と〈女性らしさ〉の宗教社会学_日蓮宗女性僧侶の事例から.
Kyoto: Koyoshobo, 2019. x + 205 + 5 pp.
JPY 4,620 (cloth), ISBN 978-4-7710-3114-2.
Reviewed by Monika Schrimpf (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) Published on H-Japan (June, 2020) Commissioned by Jessica Starling (Lewis & Clark College)
Katarzyna Joanna Cwiertka, Miho Yasuhara.
Branding Japanese Food: From Meibutsu to Washoku.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2020. 202 pp.
$68.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8248-8122-1.
Reviewed by Eric C. Rath (University of Kansas) Published on H-Japan (April, 2020) Commissioned by Martha Chaiklin
