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Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Scribner, 2020Edition: First Scribner hardcover editionDescription: XXV, 324 p.: ILL.; 20CMContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781501188534
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Stranger in the Shogun's city.LOC classification:
  • DS896.2.T78S73
Contents:
1. Faraway Places -- 2. Half a Lifetime in the Countryside -- 3. To Edo -- 4. A View from a Tenement -- 5. Samurai Winter -- 6. Costumes for Urban Life -- 7. Troubles at Home -- 8. In the Office of the City Magistrate -- 9. 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Asian University for Women Library Non-fiction General Stacks DS896.2.T78S73 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 030068
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Faraway Places -- 2. Half a Lifetime in the Countryside -- 3. To Edo -- 4. A View from a Tenement -- 5. Samurai Winter -- 6. Costumes for Urban Life -- 7. Troubles at Home -- 8. In the Office of the City Magistrate -- 9. 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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