Part 1 Pleasure quarters and theatre: the pleasure quarters and Tokugawa culture, Teruoka Yasutaka; flowers of Edo - Kabuki and its patrons, C. Andrew Gerstle. Part 2 Edo language: the development of Edo language, H.B.D. Clarke;Edo and Tokyo dialects, Hiroko C. Quackenbush. Part 3 High culture: group portrait with artist - Yosa Buson and his patrons, Mark Morris; the tale of Genji in the 18th-century - Keichu, Mabuchi and Norinaga Thomas J. Harper; The role of traditional aesthetics, Nakano Mitsutoshi; Matsudaira Sabanobu and Samurai education, Robert L. Backus.
