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Stranger in the Shogun's city : a Japanese woman and her world / Amy Stanley.

By: Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2020Edition: First Scribner hardcover editionDescription: pages cmContent type:
  • text
ISBN:
  • 9781501188534 (pbk)
Other title:
  • Japanese woman and her world
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Stranger in the Shogun's city.DDC classification:
  • 952.135 23
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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."-- Provided by publisher.
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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."-- Provided by publisher.

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