In his current book project, The Shogun’s Eyes: Knowledge, Censorship, and the World of Seventeenth-Century Nagasaki, Said Monteiro explores the central role of censorial practices in Tokugawa society, with a particular focus on the intersection of recurring bans on Christianity and Nagasaki’s scholarly culture. By highlighting the agency of local actors who produced knowledge under strict shogunal surveillance, he argues that, as this strategic port city connected Japan to China, Europe, and the rest of the globe, censors not only constrained but also enabled the cross-border circulation of books and ideas across the archipelago.