sentences:  As a leading scholar of early modern Japan once told me, everybody talks about "Muen, kugai, raku," one of Amino’s most important books, but few have read it.For the most part, one could say the same about much of his work.At least two reasons for this arise from Amino’s work itself.One is that much of it has a highly specialized focus on medieval Japan, and another is the context in which his work is read.