Laura Nenzi is Professor of History at Emory University.

• Acknowledgments; Introduction: Japan and the Modern Transformation of the Night; Part I. Regulation: 1. Nocturnal Order; 2. Maritime Lights; Part II. Production and Consumption: 3. Oils, Candles, Wicks; 4. Putting the Night to Work; Part III. Curiosity, Fantasy, Sociability: 5. Intellectual Curiosity; 6. Fantasy, Spectacle, Sociability; Conclusion: What the Night Illuminates; Bibliography; Index.

'Laura Nenzi's delightful book embeds an important critique of our understanding of the transformative power of modern forms of artificial illumination in a lively cultural and material survey of lighting in early modern Japan. She guides her readers everywhere from wax to wick, lantern to beacon light, urban pleasure quarters to rural houses.' David Howell, author of Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Laura Nenzi is Professor of History at Emory University.

• Acknowledgments; Introduction: Japan and the Modern Transformation of the Night; Part I. Regulation: 1. Nocturnal Order; 2. Maritime Lights; Part II. Production and Consumption: 3. Oils, Candles, Wicks; 4. Putting the Night to Work; Part III. Curiosity, Fantasy, Sociability: 5. Intellectual Curiosity; 6. Fantasy, Spectacle, Sociability; Conclusion: What the Night Illuminates; Bibliography; Index.

'Laura Nenzi's delightful book embeds an important critique of our understanding of the transformative power of modern forms of artificial illumination in a lively cultural and material survey of lighting in early modern Japan. She guides her readers everywhere from wax to wick, lantern to beacon light, urban pleasure quarters to rural houses.' David Howell, author of Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Laura Nenzi is Professor of History at Emory University.

• Acknowledgments; Introduction: Japan and the Modern Transformation of the Night; Part I. Regulation: 1. Nocturnal Order; 2. Maritime Lights; Part II. Production and Consumption: 3. Oils, Candles, Wicks; 4. Putting the Night to Work; Part III. Curiosity, Fantasy, Sociability: 5. Intellectual Curiosity; 6. Fantasy, Spectacle, Sociability; Conclusion: What the Night Illuminates; Bibliography; Index.

'Laura Nenzi's delightful book embeds an important critique of our understanding of the transformative power of modern forms of artificial illumination in a lively cultural and material survey of lighting in early modern Japan. She guides her readers everywhere from wax to wick, lantern to beacon light, urban pleasure quarters to rural houses.' David Howell, author of Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan