Major historical work

Pierre-François Souyri republished here work that goes back a few years, but with revisions and providing an original chapter in which he compares Japanese and Western feudalism feudalism. This book takes stock of Japanese historical research (the author masterfully dominating) over the period from the Kamakura on the eve of the Sengoku era. It is not a historical account of distractive type, but a synthesis very rich and extremely thought, which requires reading effort. Obviously, the author can not say all in 400 pages (I personally would have liked more on the Muromachi period), but this summary is required by its quality and seriousness. Ed. Perrin did the right thing. Unfortunately, this edition is full of punctuation mistakes (very frequent confusion between the point and the comma!) Which sometimes makes the annoying reading. One wonders how serious publisher allows such blunders, whether vis-à-vis the author or the reader (the books are not free!).