Stranger in the Shogun's city : a Japanese woman and her world /
Stanley, Amy, 1978-
Stranger in the Shogun's city : a Japanese woman and her world / Japanese woman and her world Amy Stanley. - First Scribner hardcover edition. - pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
One Faraway Places -- Two Half a Lifetime in the Countryside -- Three To Edo -- Four A View from a Tenement -- Five Samurai Winter -- Six Costumes for Urban Life -- Seven Troubles at Home -- Eight In the Office of the City Magistrate -- Nine Endings and Afterlives.
"A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo-the city that would become Tokyo-and a portrait of a great city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West."--
9781501188534 (pbk)
2020004839
Tsuneno, 1804-1853.
Women--Social life and customs.--Japan--Tokyo
Divorced women--Japan--Biography.
Tokyo (Japan)--History--19th century.
Tokyo (Japan)--Biography.
952.135
Stranger in the Shogun's city : a Japanese woman and her world / Japanese woman and her world Amy Stanley. - First Scribner hardcover edition. - pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
One Faraway Places -- Two Half a Lifetime in the Countryside -- Three To Edo -- Four A View from a Tenement -- Five Samurai Winter -- Six Costumes for Urban Life -- Seven Troubles at Home -- Eight In the Office of the City Magistrate -- Nine Endings and Afterlives.
"A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo-the city that would become Tokyo-and a portrait of a great city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West."--
9781501188534 (pbk)
2020004839
Tsuneno, 1804-1853.
Women--Social life and customs.--Japan--Tokyo
Divorced women--Japan--Biography.
Tokyo (Japan)--History--19th century.
Tokyo (Japan)--Biography.
952.135