Joan R Piggott (Editor) Capital and Countryside in Japan, 300-1180: Japanese Historians in English. East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2006. The Cornell East Asia series, 129. 9781885445391 485 pages. Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is new, still in shrinkwrap. This volume includes fourteen essays, originally written in Japanese and here interpreted in English. It introduces the reader to a broader array of historical and archaeological research on center-periphery relations than has ever before been available to English readers. Each essay has been translated, annotated, and introduced by a specialist who selected it for its invaluable contribution to his or her own work, and who has rendered it into English for a non-specialist audience. This work includes an extensive glossary and bibliography. Researchers whose work has been interpreted include Tsude Hiroshi, Kobayashi Yukio, Hara Hidesaburo, Inoue Tatsuo, Takahashi TOmio, Takeda Sachiko, Hotate Michihisa, Morita Tei, Sasaki Muneo, Toda Yoshimi, Miyazaki Yasumitsu, Motoki Yasuo, Ishimoda Sho, and Koyama Yasunori. Scholar-interpreters include Michael Adolphson, Michiko Aoki, Bruce Batten, Walter Edwards, Karl Friday, Jan Goodwin, Gustav Heldt, and Joan Piggott.