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G. Rozman 1989, 'Social change', CHJ 5

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C. N. Vaporis 1986, 'Post station and assisting villages: corvée labor and peasant contention', MN 41: 377-414

C. N. Vaporis 1987, 'Overland communications in Tokugawa Japan', PhD dissertation, Princeton

C. N. Vaporis 1989, 'Caveat viator: advice to travellers in the Edo Period', MN 44: 461-483

C. N. Vaporis 1994, Breaking barriers: travel and the state in early modern Japan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP)

C. N. Vaporis 1995, 'The early modern origins of Japanese tourism', in T. Umesao et al., eds, Japanese civilization in the modern world - IX Tourism, Senri Ethnological Studies 38 (Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology)

C. N. Vaporis 1996, 'A tour of duty: Kurume Hanshi Edo Kinban Nagaya Emaki', MN 51: 279-308

C. N. Vaporis 1997, 'To Edo and back: alternate attendance and Japanese culture in the Early Modern period', JJS 23: 25-68

C. N. Vaporis 2005, ‘Lordly pageantry: the daimyo procession and political authority’, NBR 17: 3-54

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