Table of Contents

Foreword (Joe Cribb) Japanese Numismatics - Bibliographic Sources A History of the Japanese Coin Collection at the British Museum (Helen Wang) How did Kutsuki Masatsuna's Coins Come to the British Museum? (Helen Wang) A Brief History of Pre-modern Japanese Coinage (Shin'ichi Sakuraki) European Interest in Japanese Coins before 1853 (Peter Kornicki) Kutsuki Masatsuna - A Life (Timon Screech) Kutsuki Masatsuna as Collector and Numismatist (Shin'ichi Sakuraki and Nobuhisa Furuta) The Japanese Coin Collection (pre-Meiji) at the British Museum: Catalogue (Shin'ichi Sakuraki and Nobuhisa Furuta - edited by Helen Wang, Joe Cribb and Peter Kornicki)

About the Author

Helen Wang is Curator of East Asian Money, Coins and banknotes of East Asia, seventh century BC to the present at the British Musuem