Contact Information
302 Gregory Hall
810 S Wright
M/C 466
Urbana, IL 61801
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor Emeritus, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Highlighted Publications
EDITED BOOKS
Ezu-gaku nyūmon (Introduction to Cartology). University of Tokyo Press, 2011.
Toby, Ronald P, and Akira Hayami. Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1859. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Toby, Ronald P, and Martin Collcutt. Japan and Its Worlds: Marius Jansen and the Internationalization of Japanese Histor. I-House Press, 2004.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
"Mapping New Meisho: The Kyoto ‘Ear Mound’ in Early Modern Representation (Kinsei no miyako meisho: Hōkōji to Mimizuka)." Rekishigaku kenkyū, vol. 841, 2008, p. 1-12.
"Kusumi Morikage hitsu Chōsenjin gyōretsu-zu byōbu ni tsuite (On Kusumi Morikage's "Korean Parade Screens"." Kokka, vol. 109, no. 5, 2003, p. 5-16.
BOOKS
Sakoku to iu gaikō (The politics of ‘seclusion’). Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2008.
Toby, Ronald P, Shosuke Murai, Shin Satō, and Mitsuo Yoshida. Nik-Kan-Chū no kōryū: hito, mono, bunka (Japanese-Korean-Chinese Exchange: People, Things & Culture). Compiled by Mitsuo Yoshida, Yamakawa Shuppansha, 2004.
BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS
Toby, Ronald P. "The Originality of the ‘Copy’: Mimesis and Subversion in Hanegawa Tōei’s Chōsenjin ukie." Cultures of Copying in Japan, Routledge, 2007, p. 113-155.
"Foreign Texts/Native Readings: Matsushita Kenrin (1637-1703) & the Challenge of Chinese/ Korean Histories." Japan and Its Worlds, I-House Press, 2007, p. 113-155.
Recent Publications
Toby, R. P. (2019). Engaging the Other: ‘Japan’ and Its Alter Egos, 1550–1850. (Brill's Japanese Studies Library; Vol. 65). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004393516
杉本, 史子, 杉本史子, 礒永和貴, 小野寺淳, Toby, R. P., 中野等, & 平井松午 (Eds.) (2011). 絵図学入門. Tōkyōdaigakushuppankai.
Collcutt, M., Mikio, K., & Toby, R. P. (Eds.) (2007). Japan and Its Worlds: Marius B. Jansen and the Internationalization of Japanese Studies. I-House Press.
Toby, R. P. (2007). Foreign Texts/Native Readings: Matsushita Kenrin (1637-1703) and the Challenge of Chinese/ Korean Histories. In M. Collcutt, K. Mikio, & R. Toby (Eds.), Japan and Its Worlds: Marius B. Jansen and the Internationalization of Japanese Studies (pp. 143-155). I-House Press.
Toby, R. P. (2007). The originality of the 'copy': Mimesis and subversion in Hanegawa Tôei's Chôsenjin Ukie. In R. Cox (Ed.), The Culture of Copying in Japan: Critical and Historical Perspectives (pp. 71-110). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203609774